Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa ; foreword by Adekeye Adebajo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The contested politics of peacebuilding in Africa / Devon Curtis -- Peace as an incentive for war / David Keen -- Statebuilding and governance : the conundrums of legitimacy and local ownership / Dominik Zaum -- Security sector governance and peacebuilding / Eboe Hutchful -- The limits of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration / Paul Omach -- The role of the African Union, new partnership for Africa's development, and African Development Bank in postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- Peacebuilding as governance : the case of the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Service / Chris Landsberg -- The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission : problems and prospects / 'Funmi Olonisakin and Eka Ikpe -- Financing peace? : the World Bank, reconstruction, and liberal peacebuilding / Graham Harrison -- The International Criminal Court : a peacebuilder in Africa? / Sarah Nouwen -- Sudan : the politics of negotiating peace / Sharath Srinivasan -- Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region of Africa / Rene Lemarchand -- Peacebuilding through statebuilding in West Africa? : the cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia / Comfort Ero -- Oil and peacebuilding in the Niger Delta / Aderoju Oyefusi -- Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in Southern Africa : Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique / Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa -- Peacebuilding without a state : the Somali experience / Christopher Clapham.

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