War and Conflict in Africa

Name: War and Conflict in Africa
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ISBN: 9780745645452

ISBN-10: 0745645453

ISBN-13: 9780745645452

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paul D. Williams

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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 addressing these and other questions, Paul Williams offers the first comparative assessment of more than two hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa between 1990 and 2009 - from the continental catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the environmental disaster in the Niger Delta and mass atrocities in the Sudan. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of tables and figures


List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Contexts



Counting Africa’s Conflicts (and their casualties)



The Terrain of Struggle



Ingredients



Neopatrimonialism



Resources



Sovereignty



Ethnicity



Religion



Responses



Organization-Building



Peacemaking



Peacekeeping



Aid


Conclusion


Appendices