Making Sense of the Central African Republic

Tatiana Carayannis is deputy director of the Social Science Research Council’s Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum. She also directs the SSRC China-Africa Knowledge Project and is a research director of the LSE-based consortium, the Justice and Security Research Programme. A political scientist and seasoned field researcher, she is widely published on political mobilization and rebel governance, and UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Central Africa, particularly the DRC. She co-authored UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (2005) with Thomas G. Weiss, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly, and is currently completing her next book, Pioneers of Peacekeeping: ONUC, 1960-1964.Louisa Lombard is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. She has worked in CAR as a field consultant to several international organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Small Arms Survey, Refugees International and the World Bank, in addition to her academic research. She is currently finishing two books about the country, one an ethnographic and historical account of the ‘stateless’ east, and the other an anthropological take on war and rebellion over the past decade.

• 1. Making Sense of CAR: An Introduction - Louisa Lombard and Tatiana Carayannis2. CAR's History: The Past of a Tense Present - Stephen W. Smith3. Being Rich, Being Poor: Wealth and Fear in the Central African Republic - Roland Marchal4. Local Dynamics in the PK5 District of Bangui - Faouzi Kilembe5. The Elite's Road to Riches in a Poor Country - Stephen W. Smith6. A Multifaceted Business: Diamonds in the Central African Republic - Ned Dalby7. The Autonomous Zone Conundrum: Armed Conservation and Rebellion in North-Eastern CAR - Louisa Lombard8. CAR and the Regional (Dis)order - Roland Marchal9. Pathologies of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding in CAR - Nathaniel Olin10. From Being Forgotten to Being Ignored: International Humanitarian Interventions in the Central African Republic - Enrica Picco11. CAR's Southern Identity: Congo, CAR, and International Justice - Tatiana Carayannis12. In Unclaimed Land: The Lord's Resistance Army in CAR - Ledio Cakaj13. A Central African Elite Perspective on the Struggles of the Central African Republic - Laurence D. Wohlers14. A Concluding Note on the Failure and Future of Peacebuilding in CAR - Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard

[T]his book is a much-needed contribution to our understanding of the CAR crisis.