Settling Disputes in Africa
Author: George Ngwane
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
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Conflict Resolution in Africa
Author: Francis M. Deng
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0815707185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts. The toll of these conflicts is monumental in terms of war damage to productivity, scarce resources diverted to armaments and military organizations, and the resulting insecurity, displacement, and destruction. At the same time, Africans, in response to internal demands as well as to international changes, have begun to focus their attention and energies on these problems and are trying innovative ways to resolve differences by nonviolent means. The outcomes of these attempts have urgent and complex implications for the future of the continent with respect to human rights, principles of democracy, and economic development. In this book, African, European, and U.S. experts examine these important issues and the prospects for conflict management and resolution in Africa. They review the scholarship in resolution in light of international changes now taking place. Addressing the undying, internal causes of conflict, they question whether global events will promote peace or threaten to unleash even more conflict. The authors focus their analysis on the issues involved in African conflicts and examine the areas in need of the most dramatic changes. They offer specific recommendations for dealing with current problems, but caution that unless policymakers confront the security situation in Africa, further destruction to national unity and political and economic stability is imminent. Case studies and themes for further, long-term research are recommended.
Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Author: Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780815775942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.
The Resolution of African Conflicts
Author: Alfred G. Nhema
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0821418084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies. They offer sober and serious analyses, eschewing the sensationalism of the western media and the sophistry of some of the scholars in the global North for whom African conflicts are at worst a distraction and at best a confirmation of their pet racist and petty universalist theories." --From the introduction by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza This book offers analyses of a range of African conflicts and demonstrates that peace is too important to be left to outsiders.
Resolving Conflicts in Africa
Author: Organization of African Unity. General Secretariat
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstitutions and Conflict Management in Africa
Author: Alan J. Kuperman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0812246586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting the first database of constitutional design in all African countries, and seven original case studies, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa explores the types of domestic political institutions that can buffer societies from destabilizing changes that otherwise increase the risk of violence.
Ripe for Resolution
Author: I. William Zartman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat causes local conflict in Africa and the rest of the Third World? What role, if any, can the U.S. play in helping to resolve these conflicts, and when is the ripe moment for a response by an external power? This new study, written by the internationally renowned Africanist I. William Zartman and undertaken as part of the Africa Project of the Council on Foreign Relations, examines the causes and nature of African conflict and addresses the issue of how foreign powers can productively contribute to the management and resolution of such conflicts without resorting to the use of military force. The book focuses on four case studies of local conflict and external response-in the Western Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Shaba province in Zaire, and Namibia-to assess various approaches to conflict management, and offers guidelines for identifying the critical moment for effective external response. Zartman also evaluates U.S. policy toward Third World conflict and spells out a policy toward Africa and the Third World in general that is based on preemptive treatment rather than military intervention.
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Peace-building in Africa
Author: Ernest E. Uwazie
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1443862541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConflicts in Africa have a great deal in common, and striking parallels can be drawn between them at all levels. Dynamics affecting the most complex war-time conflicts, civil unrest and other macro disputes are in play even in the smallest community conflicts. The converse is also true: lessons learned through community mediation, for example in South Africa, are applicable to the most complex and largest conflicts to be found on the continent. Together, the eleven chapters in this publication, in addition to the prologue and epilogue, suggest that a comprehensive assessment of efforts and investments in conflict resolution and peace studies in Africa since the mid-1990s is due in order to identify lessons and challenges, as well as best practices. Just as conflict dynamics are comparable between African conflicts, whether large or small, local or international, so are alternative dispute resolution processes. Effective approaches to resolving large-scale conflicts and civil wars are effective at the community level, and ineffectual techniques at the community level are just as likely to be counter-productive in mediating international disputes. While there may be some differences in mediating macro- and micro-conflicts (such as the time required, the need for negotiation teams, and the complexities of agenda development or pre-negotiations), as far as the mediation process is concerned, the differences are more like variations on a theme than real substantive dissimilarities. This volume provides case studies of programs and policies, and legislations on alternative dispute resolution and peace building, and examines and proposes some new, promising ideas for conflict prevention, as well as maintenance of peace, justice and security in Africa.
Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Case of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
Author: Marvin Nii Ankrah
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 3954895781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe objective of this research is to investigate the causes of conflict in Africa. Further, it discusses the role played by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in ensuring political order during its period of existence. The study employs content analysis of historical documents, academic works, internet sources and also current conflict situations in Africa as a baseline for its argument. Mainly, the study shows which major sources of tension need to be resolved to enjoy a sound, stable, peaceful, political and economic environment in the new millennium.
A Re-Assessment of the Impact and Potency of Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Post-Conflict Africa
Author: Oyeniyi Abe
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional means of settling conflicts were widely accepted and preferred before the advent of colonial rule. During that period, it was a common tradition that no appeal could come out from disputes resolved. This is partly due to the fact that those judgments were given by elders, and in African tradition, people feared and believed in the repertoire of wisdom and knowledge coming from the elders. Thus, their decision would never be questioned. With the advent of colonial administration, the socio-cultural, political and economic life of most African communities were greatly impacted. African values and beliefs which provided the foundational basis for conflict resolution eroded and became weakened. Though, in today's Africa, the African systems still retains legitimacy and occupy a prime place in justice administration, there is a growing conflict between Africa's legal traditions, elders impact on dispute resolution and western styled imposed judicial systems. This paper is a re-assessment of the different approaches to conflict resolution in contemporary African societies. It argues for the recognition of these traditional approaches in laws and policies and the impact of oath-taking in administration of justice. It considers that traditional dispute resolution could be the lens for resolving the too many conflicts arising from extractive resource governance in Africa. A return to the age long tradition of settling disputes is recommended.
