This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding.
With a range of perspectives, the chapters cover the full gamut of peacebuilding (i.e. the continuum between conflict prevention and post-war reconstruction) and address both micro and macro peacebuilding issues in the five regions of Africa. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on a single case study or few case studies in peacebuilding scholarship, the chapters examine critical peacebuilding issues at the local, state, regional, extra-regional, and continental levels in Africa.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, peace and security studies, regional organizations, development studies, state-building, and more broadly to international relations, public policy, diplomacy, international organizations, and the wider social sciences.
1. Introduction: A Social Justice Perspective of Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa 2. Fractured Intimacies: Oil-Induced ‘Violence’ in the Oil-Rich Albertine Region, Western Uganda 3. Why Peacebuilding Fails: The Experience of Managing Conflicts between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria 4. Evaluating Practices of Civil Society Organizations in the Prevention of Electoral Violence in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso 5. Reconceptualising Peacebuilding: Insights from Young Women in Zimbabwe 6. Peacebuilding through Religious Training: The Case Study of Morocco’s Training Program of African Imams 7. Divided Peacebuilders: Christian Religious Leaders and the Search for Peace in Nigeria, 1966-1970 8. Integrative Approach to Peacebuilding in Africa: The experience of the Kuria Community of Kenya and Tanzania 9. Negotiating State Intervention in Pastoral Areas: Local Elites as Brokers for Peace 10. The Limits of Environmental Peacebuilding: Challenges to Cooperation in the Eastern Nile 11. Game Changers in Asymmetrical Conflicts: Zimbabwean Diaspora Media Reporting of Homeland Conflict 12. Gender Approach to Peacebuilding in Cameroon and Central African Republic: The Case Study of the Oko’o Nga’a mo (Women of Peace) 13. The Evolving Partnership between the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States in Peacebuilding 14. Women, Peace, and Security: Investigating the Implementation of the UNSCR 1325 in Northern Kenya and its Policy Implications 15. Conclusion: Ideas, Actors, Institutions, and Future Research Direction
Thomas Kwasi Tieku is an associate professor of Political Science in King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Amanda Coffie is a research fellow at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy, University of Ghana, Ghana. Mary Boatemaa Setrana is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of Ghana, Ghana. Akin Taiwo is an assistant professor of Social Work at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
