Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Carlson Anyangwe

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Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa highlights Africa’s tragedy of endless conflicts. Rich in case studies, it examines violent conflicts and Africa’s approaches to conflict resolution. The case studies show that Africa continues to be a chronically unstable space tormented especially by frequent and devastating civil wars of which ethnicity, religion, and bad governance are some of the root causes. These conflicts have occasioned massive human rights abuses, arrested development, reversed or slowed economic growth, created a vicious circle of instability and hunger, and exacerbated levels of poverty and disease in the continent. In the final part of this book, Carlson Anyangwe considers indigenous mechanisms for settling disputes, post-conflict transitional justice systems, and the African Union conflict-resolution mechanism that relies, as it does, on the United Nations’ peace and security framework and the peace and security functions of the African regional economic organizations.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-08
Mått159 x 238 x 33 mm
Vikt717 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666910360

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PrefaceList of AcronymsIntroductionPart One: Boundary and Territorial ConflictsChapter 1: Claims and Conflicts over Land Territory and Land BoundaryChapter 2: Disputes over Maritime Boundary Part Two: Armed Conflicts Within and Between StatesChapter 3: Sources of Civil Wars: Colonial HangoverChapter 4: Sources of Civil Wars: Despotism, Overstay in Power, and Historical DiscontentChapter 5: Noticeable Features of Africa’s Civil Wars Chapter 6: Causes of Inter-State Wars in AfricaPart Three: A New Dimension of Conflicts in Africa: Domestic and Transborder TerrorismChapter 7: An Overview Chapter 8: Combating Terrorism through LawChapter 9: Punishing Acts of TerrorismPart Four: African Approaches to Conflict ResolutionChapter 10: Some Indigenous Mechanisms for Settling ConflictsChapter 11: Indigenous System and Transitional Justice: Rwanda’s GacacaChapter 12: The African Union and Conflict Resolution Arrangements BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Few African issues are as consequential as strife over land and water. Anyangwe’s valuable overview examines boundary and territorial conflicts, sources and features of civil wars, domestic and transborder terrorism, and African approaches to conflict resolution…. This book's 12 chapters provide comprehensive, convincing, yet succinct summaries of numerous conflicts. Although Anyangwe does not offer new solutions, he does offer well-documented, wide-ranging analyses of practically every outbreak of violence…. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students.