Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding

This handbook as a whole will be of greatest interest to scholars who study peacebuilding processes in Africa. Individual chapters could be valuable sources of insight and citation for scholars working on specific subjects, whether certain tasks (e.g. security sector reform) or the countries that are the foci of case studies. I am sceptical that Western policy makers and many UN officials will respond positively to the critiques of their efforts that run throughout the handbook. This is not to say that criticisms from the Global South perspective are invalid, but they run counter to orientations that still reflect the liberal model of peacebuilding. -- Paul F. Diehl, Independent Scholar