Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding

Par Dirigé par Bruno Charbonneau et Maxime Ricard
Routledge

Africa lies at the centre of the international community’s peacebuilding interventions, and the continent’s rich multitude of actors, ideas, relationships, practices, experiences, locations, and contexts in turn shapes the possibilities and practices of contemporary peacebuilding. This timely new handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context.

The book begins by outlining the evolution and the various ideologies, conceptualizations, institutions, and practices of African peacebuilding. It identifies critical differences in how African peacebuilders have conceptualized and operationalized peacebuilding. The book then considers how different actors sustain, construct, and use African infrastructure to identify and analyse converging, differing, or competing mandates, approaches, and interests. Finally, it analyses specific thematic issues such as gender, justice, development, democracy, and the politics of knowledge before ending with in-depth analyses of case studies drawn from across the continent.

Bringing together an international line-up of expert contributors, this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of African politics, post-conflict reconstruction, security, and peace and conflict studies.

Introduction: Whose Peacebuilding? Power, Politics, Practices

Bruno Charbonneau and Maxime Ricard

Part I: Institutions

1. From Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding: Towards a UN Peace Continuum

Alexandra Novosseloff

2. The United Nations and the African Union: Partners or Rivals in Peace Operations?

Arthur Stein and Marie-Joëlle Zahar

3. Peacebuilding via Security Sector Reform and Governance? The Case of West Africa

Niagalé Bagayoko and Eboe Hutchful

4. Preventing Conflict-Induced Forced Displacement in Africa: UNHCR, the AU and the Rhetoric and Realities of 'Root Causes'

Marina Sharpe

Part II: Themes and Debates

5. African Mediation in High-Intensity Conflict: How African?

Laurie Nathan

6. Justice and Reconciliation in Africa: The Emergence of the African Union Transitional Justice Policy

Tim Murithi

7. The Politics of Knowledge and an African Transitional Justice: Analysing Africa as a Constitutive Outside

Ulrike Lühe and Briony Jones

8. Local Peacebuilding: The Reflexive Encounter Between a Subaltern View and a Practitioner in Côte D’Ivoire

Jeremy Allouche and Patrick Zadi Zadi

9. Women, Gender and Peacebuilding in Africa

Nina Wilén

10. Development and Peacebuilding

Jonathan M. Sears

11. Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa

Daniel Eizenga

12. The Climate Crisis and Its Challenges for African Peacebuilding

Bruno Charbonneau, Peter Läderach, Marc-André Boisvert, Tatiana Smirnova,

Grazia Pacillo, Alessandro Craparo, and Ignacio Madurga

Part III: Case Studies

13. Peace by Delegation? The G5 Sahel’s Quest to Build Sustainable Peace

Ousmane Diallo

14. Counterinsurgency and Peacebuilding in Somalia and Mali

Bruno Charbonneau and Louise Wiuff Moe

15. Peacebuilding in The Gambia: Sustaining the Gains and Addressing Potential Threats to the Process

Festus Kofi Aubyn

16. The Politics of Transitional Justice and Peacemaking in a Non-Transition Context: The Case of South Sudan

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17. Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau: Challenges and the Way Forward to Sustaining Peace and Security

Fiifi Edu-Afful and Ruth Adwoa Frimpong

18. Stability for Whom and for What? The Ivorian Peacebuilding Experience Under Alassane Ouattara

Maxime Ricard

Conclusion: African Peacebuilding for Whom and What? Bringing the People Back In

Cyril Obi

 
 

31 mai 2022
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