| Author | : Donald S. Rothchild |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780815775942 |
In 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.
| Author | : Alan J. Kuperman |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2015-07-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0812246586 |
Presenting 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.
| Author | : Donald S. Rothchild |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780815775935 |
In 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.
| Author | : Tsega Etefa |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2019-02-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030105407 |
From Darfur to the Rwandan genocide, journalists, policymakers, and scholars have blamed armed conflicts in Africa on ancient hatreds or competition for resources. Here, Tsega Etefa compares three such cases—the Darfur conflict between Arabs and non-Arabs, the Gumuz and Oromo clashes in Western Oromia, and the Oromo-Pokomo conflict in the Tana Delta—in order to offer a fuller picture of how ethnic violence in Africa begins. Diverse communities in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya alike have long histories of peacefully sharing resources, intermarrying, and resolving disputes. As he argues, ethnic conflicts are fundamentally political conflicts, driven by non-inclusive political systems, the monopolization of state resources, and the manipulation of ethnicity for political gain, coupled with the lack of democratic mechanisms for redressing grievances.
| Author | : Jennifer L. De Maio |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780739128459 |
Given the pervasive threat of ethnic conflict and the growing incidence of internal wars spilling across borders, understanding the impact of third-party intervention on conflict prevention, durable peaceful governance, and amicable social relations becomes critical exercises for any scholar of conflict management. The purpose of this project is to determine whether intervention strategies undertaken by international, regional, and subregional actors can be devised or improved so as to maximize the likelihood of successful conflict management in the case of internal conflicts, particularly ethnic conflicts. As the literature and empirical evidence suggest, third-party intervention does not always prevent or end violence. Jennifer L. De Maio contends that external involvement is more likely to lead to effective conflict management if it works to alter the perceptions of the antagonists and ensures that the parties truly own the peace. Book jacket.
| Author | : M. Ross |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1999-06-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230513085 |
Throughout the world there are efforts both large and small to address ethnic conflicts-identity based disputes between groups who are unable to live side-by-side in the same state. This book brings together a collection of case studies on interventions in ethnic conflicts throughout the world in which the nature of the state is a core concern (Turkey, Russia, Macedonia, Guatemala, Israel, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, South Africa, US) and asks how the projects themselves understand success and failure in ethnic conflict resolution. It emphasises the complexity and importance of better understanding ways in which small-scale interventions can sometimes have a large impact on large-scale ethnic conflict, and how the goals of the intervenors shift as the participants redefine the identities and interest at stake.
| Author | : Timothy D. Sisk |
| Publisher | : US Institute of Peace Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781878379795 |
Elections have emerged as one of the most important, and most contentious, features of political life on the African continent. In the first half of this decade, there were more than 20 national elections, serving largely as capstones of peace processes or transitions to democracies. The outcomes of these and more recent elections have been remarkably varied, and the relationship between elections and conflict management is widely debated throughout Africa and among international observers. Elections can either help reduce tensions by reconstituting legitimate government, or they can exacerbate them by further polarizing highly conflictual societies. This timely volume examines the relationship between elections, especially electoral systems, and conflict management in Africa, while also serving as an important reference for other regions. The book brings together for the first time the latest thinking on the many different roles elections can play in democratization and conflict management.
| Author | : Philip Roessler |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2016-12-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107176077 |
This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.
| Author | : David A. Lake |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1998-03-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780691016900 |
This work focuses on how, why and when ethnic conflicts either diffuse by precipitating similar conflicts elsewhere or escalate by bringing in outside parties and how such transnational ethnic conflicts can be managed. It focuses specifically on the conflicts in Eastern Europe and Africa.
