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Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in
Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the
aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical
and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most
exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism
to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser
known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, Katanga,
Eritrea and South Sudan alongside Barotseland, Cabinda, and the
Comoros, among others. Suggesting that African secessionism can be
understood through the categories of aspiration, grievance,
performance, and disenchantment, the book's analytical framework
promises to be a building block for future studies of the topic.
Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in
Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the
aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical
and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most
exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism
to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser
known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, Katanga,
Eritrea and South Sudan alongside Barotseland, Cabinda, and the
Comoros, among others. Suggesting that African secessionism can be
understood through the categories of aspiration, grievance,
performance, and disenchantment, the book's analytical framework
promises to be a building block for future studies of the topic.
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is one of Africa's most notorious
armed rebel groups, having operated across Uganda, South Sudan,
Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo. When they entered the Juba Peace Talks with the Ugandan
Government in 2006, the peace deal seemed like a gift to fighters
who had for years barely been surviving in Central Africa's
jungles. Yet the talks failed. Why? Based on exclusive interviews
with LRA fighters and their notorious leader Joseph Kony, Mareike
Schomerus provides insights into how the LRA experienced the Juba
Talks, revealing developing dynamics and deep distrust within a
conflict system and how these became entrenched through the peace
negotiations. In so doing, Schomerus offers an explanation as to
why current approaches to ending armed violence not only fail but
how they actively contribute to their own failure, and calls for a
new approach to contemporary peacemaking.
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is one of Africa's most notorious
armed rebel groups, having operated across Uganda, South Sudan,
Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo. When they entered the Juba Peace Talks with the Ugandan
Government in 2006, the peace deal seemed like a gift to fighters
who had for years barely been surviving in Central Africa's
jungles. Yet the talks failed. Why? Based on exclusive interviews
with LRA fighters and their notorious leader Joseph Kony, Mareike
Schomerus provides insights into how the LRA experienced the Juba
Talks, revealing developing dynamics and deep distrust within a
conflict system and how these became entrenched through the peace
negotiations. In so doing, Schomerus offers an explanation as to
why current approaches to ending armed violence not only fail but
how they actively contribute to their own failure, and calls for a
new approach to contemporary peacemaking.
Violent conflict and its aftermath are pressing problems,
particularly for international development initiatives. However,
the results of development in conflict contexts have generally been
disappointing and their preventative potential thus questionable.
Available Open Access, Lives Amid Violence argues that this is
because practitioners adhere to a mental model that emphasises
linearity, certainty, and causality, assuming that violence is best
addressed through work plans that deliver state-building,
stabilisation and services. Based on ten years of multi-method
research from, in, and on conflict-affected countries, this book
challenges this approach. Drawing on a significant collaborative
body of scholarship, this work puts forward original and
generalizable conclusions about how lives amid violence persist,
offering an invitation to abandon restricting mental models and to
embrace creative ways of thinking and working. These include paying
attention to the long-term effects of conflict on individual
behaviour and decision-making, the social realities of economic
life, the role service delivery plays in negotiations between
citizens and states, and to creating meaningful relationships.
Transformation also requires reflection and therefore the book
concludes with constructive suggestions on how to practice these
insights to better support those whose lives are shaped by
violence. More details are available at
www.transformingdevelopment.org The eBook editions of this book are
available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
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