War and Conflict in Africa (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-5095-0908-9 (ISBN)
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 this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, 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, scale and location 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 peace 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.
Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
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 this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, 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, scale and location 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 peace 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.
Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Contexts
1 Counting Africa's Conflicts (and their Casualties)
2 The Terrain of Struggle
Part II Ingredients
3 Neopatrimonialism
4 Resources
5 Sovereignty
6 Ethnicity
7 Religion
Part III Responses
8 Organization-Building
9 Peacemaking
10 Peace Operations
11 Aid
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
War and Conflict in Africa is a fantastic resource for all those who want to learn about the causes, consequences, and solutions to African conflicts. Superbly researched, written, and documented, it manages to cover and synthesize the major debates on war and peace in Africa in a single book.
Séverine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Paul Williams knows the politics of conflict and its resolution backwards and forwards. In this bold second edition, he expands his analysis to explain a worrisome upswing in violence in Africa. Full of helpful insights and mastery of the wide literature, Williams explains how the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes are linked to highly fragmented and complex war zones. Superbly revised and expanded, this brilliant book is a landmark in the literature on the politics of conflict."
William Reno, Northwestern University
"This impressive book provides a comprehensive overview of wars and conflicts in modern Africa, the ideas that have been used to explain them, and the means that have been deployed in the attempt to overcome them. It is absolutely essential reading for anyone concerned with these issues. The central conclusion that "most of the keys required to unlock the secret of building stable peace on the continent are held by local actors" is one that I wholeheartedly endorse."
Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
Abbreviations
| ACLED | Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project |
| ACIRC | African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises |
| ACSS | Africa Centre for Strategic Studies |
| ADC | Alliance Démocratique du 23 Mai 2006 pour le Changement (Mali) |
| ADF | Allied Democratic Forces (Uganda) |
| AFDL | Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo–Zaire |
| AFISMA | African-led International Support Mission in Mali |
| AFRC | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Sierra Leone) |
| AMIB | AU Mission in Burundi |
| AMIS | AU Mission in Sudan |
| AMISEC | AU Mission for Support to the Elections in the Comoros |
| AMISOM | AU Mission in Somalia |
| APC | All People's Congress (Sierra Leone) |
| APSA | African Peace and Security Architecture |
| AQIM | Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb |
| ASF | African Standby Force |
| ATNMC | Alliance Touareg Nord-Mali pour le Changement (Mali) |
| AU | African Union |
| CAR | Central African Republic |
| CDF | Civil Defence Force (Sierra Leone) |
| CDR | Coalition pour la Défense de la République (Rwanda) |
| CEN-SAD | Community of Sahel-Saharan States |
| CEWARN | Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (IGAD) |
| CEWS | Continental Early Warning System (AU) |
| CIJ | Coalition for International Justice |
| CNDP | Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (DRC) |
| CPA | Comprehensive Peace Agreement (Sudan, 2005) |
| CPDTF | Commonwealth Police Development Task Force |
| DDR | disarmament, demobilization and reintegration |
| DLF | Darfur Liberation Front |
| DRC | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| EASF | Eastern Africa Standby Force |
| ECCAS | Economic Community of Central African States |
| ECOMICI | ECOWAS Mission in Côte d'Ivoire |
| ECOMIL | ECOWAS Mission in Liberia |
| ECOMOG | ECOWAS Monitoring Group |
| ECOWARN | ECOWAS Early Warning and Response Network |
| ECOWAS | Economic Community of West African States |
| EIJM | Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement |
| EPLF | Eritrean People's Liberation Front |
| EPRDF | Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front |
| EU | European Union |
| EUFOR | EU Force |
| EUFOR RD | EU Reserve Deployment Force |
| EUSEC | EU Security Sector Reform Mission |
| FAC | Congolese Armed Forces |
| FARDC | Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (DRC) |
| FDLR | Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda |
| FIS | Front Islamique du Salut (Algeria) |
| FLEC | Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave |
| FLN | Front de Libération Nationale (Algeria) |
| FN | Forces Nouvelles (Côte d'Ivoire) |
| FOMUC | CEMAC Multinational Force in the Central African Republic |
| GAF | Guinean Armed Forces |
| GDP | gross domestic product |
| GIA | Armed Islamic Group |
| GIZ | German Development Agency |
| GNI | gross national income |
| GSPC | Group for Salafist Preaching and Combat |
| HIPC | heavily indebted poor countries |
| HIPPO | High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations |
| HRW | Human Rights Watch |
| HSM | Holy Spirit Movement (Uganda) |
| HSR | Human Security Report |
| ICC | International Criminal Court |
| ICG | International Crisis Group |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| IED | improvised explosive device |
| IFI | international financial institution |
| IGAD | Intergovernmental Authority on Development |
| IGNU | Interim Government of National Unity (Liberia) |
| IISS | International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK) |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IR | International Relations |
| IRC | International Rescue Committee |
| ISR | intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance |
| JEM | Justice and Equality Movement (Sudan) |
| LRA | Lord's Resistance Army (Uganda) |
| LURD | Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy |
| MAES | AU Electoral and Security Assistance Mission to the Comoros |
| MCA | Millennium Challenge Account (US) |
| MEND | Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Nigeria) |
| MFDC | Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (Senegal) |
| MICOPAX | Mission for the Consolidation of Peace in Central African Republic |
| MINUCI | UN Mission in Côte d'Ivoire |
| MINURCA | UN Mission in the Central African Republic |
| MINURCAT | UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad |
| MINURSO | UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara |
| MINUSCA | UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in CAR |
| MINUSMA | UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali |
| MIOC | AU Military Observer Mission in the Comoros |
| MISAB | Inter-African Peace Force (Central African Republic) |
| MISCA | AU Mission in Central African Republic |
| MJP | Patriotic Youth Movement (Côte d'Ivoire) |
| MLC | Movement for the Liberation of Congo (DRC) |
| MNJ | Mouvement des Nigériens pour la Justice (Niger) |
| MNJTF | Multinational Joint Task Force |
| MNLA | Mouvement National de Liberation de l'Azawad |
| MODEL | Movement for Democracy in Liberia |
| MONUA | UN Observer Mission in Angola |
| MONUC | UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| MONUSCO | UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| MOSOP | Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Nigeria) |
| MPCI | Mouvement Patriotique de Côte d'Ivoire |
| MPIGO | Ivorian Movement of the Great West |
| MPLA | Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola |
| MRND | National Revolutionary Movement for Development (Rwanda) |
| MSF | Médecins Sans Frontières |
| MUJAO | Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NCP | National Congress Party (Sudan) |
| NGO | non-governmental... |
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.6.2016 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | Afrika • CAR</p> • conflict • Congo • Development Studies • Development Studies Special Topics • Entwicklungsforschung • Ethnicity • Governance • Internationale Beziehungen • International Relations • International Security • Kriegs- u. Friedensforschung • <p>Africa • Mali • Peacekeeping • Political Science • Politikwissenschaft • Sovereignty • Spezialthemen Entwicklungsforschung • Sudan • UN • War & Peace Studies |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-0908-9 / 1509509089 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-0908-9 / 9781509509089 |
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