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082 0 4 _a303.66096
100 1 _aWilliams, Paul D.,
_d1975-
_eauthor.
_9113261
245 1 0 _aWar & conflict in Africa /
_cPaul D. Williams.
246 3 _aWar and conflict in Africa
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bPolity Press,
_c2016.
300 _axiv, 361 pages :
_billustrations, maps
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
336 _acartographic image
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _aPrevious edition: 2011.
520 _aThis book 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, it 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.
650 0 _aPolitics and war
_zAfrica
_xHistory.
_959922
650 0 _aConflict management
_zAfrica
_xInternational cooperation.
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651 0 _aAfrica
_xPolitics and government
_y1960-
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