After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being
the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this
proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were
their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do
to stop them?
In addressing these and other questions, Paul Williams offers
the first comparative assessment of more than two hundred armed
conflicts which took place in Africa between 1990 and 2009 - from
the continental catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo to
the environmental disaster in the Niger Delta and mass atrocities
in the Sudan. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the
political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the
key ingredients that provoked them and the major international
responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace.
Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important
attempts to measure the number and scale of Africa's armed
conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the
terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged.
Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated
features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems
of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic
identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as
well as the impact of natural resources and religion.
Part III, Responses, discusses four major international
reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional
architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent;
this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking
initiatives and peacekeeping operations; and efforts to develop the
continent.
"War and Conflict in Africa" will be essential reading for all
students of international peace and security studies as well as
Africa's international relations.
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