Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa

Patrick Tom is co-founder, writer, editor and proof-reader at Mindleag Limited. He earned a PhD in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews, UK. He has taught a module on the International Relations of sub-Saharan Africa at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe.

• Introduction.- 1. Africa Before, During and After Colonial Rule.- 2. Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Liberal Peace.- 3. The Liberal Peace in Question.- 4. Power, Resistance and Hybridity in International Peacebuilding.- 5. The Struggle for Sierra Leone.- 6. Building a liberal Peace in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone.- 7. Local NGOs and Autonomous Maneuvering.- 8. Youth-Traditional Authorities' Relations in Post-War Sierra Leone.- 9. In Search for Emancipatory Hybridity in Sierra Leone.- Conclusion.

“Tom’s book is timely, given the global upheavals that are contributing towards the fragmentation and disruption of the liberal orthodoxy that has, during its ignoble and illegitimate reign of the past two decades … . Liberal Peace and Post-conflict Peacebuilding in Africa is a necessary wake-up call and palliative to the tendency – particularly among the self-righteous and proselytising peacebuilders from the global North – to replicate the dated prescriptions of a moribund and anachronistic liberal peace agenda.” (Tim Murithi, South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 25 (1), March, 2018)