Resolution of African Conflicts

Professor Alfred G. Nhema is the Director of the School of Government. His research interests are in the areas of Democracy and Governance, Public Administration, Public Policy, Peace and Conflict. He is the Editor of The Resolution of African Conflicts: the Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (2008) and The Roots of African Conflicts: the Causes and Costs (2008). Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Vice Chancellor at United States International University-Africa.

• Introduction: the resolution of African conflicts by Alfred Nhema; The role of regional & international actors: a framework for a working peace system by Victor A.O. Adetula; The role of the OAU & the AU by P. Godfrey Okoth; The continental early warning system of the African Union by Jakkie Cilliers; The International Criminal Court & the LRA insurgency in northern Uganda by Kasaija Philip Apuuli; How to make democracy work? Local government in South Africa by Ursula Scheidegger; Local government & the management of conflict in fragmented societies: South Africa, Namibia & Mauritius compared by Christof Hartmann; Conflict resolution in the Sudan by Idris Salim El Hassan; Elections & conflict in southern Africa by Khabele Matlosa; The Somali peace process by Kizito Sabala, Aisha Ahmad & Edwin Rutto; Post-conflict Mozambique by Brazao Mazulu.

By putting together these two comprehensive and well-researched volumes, Nhema and Zeleza have done a great service to the Africanist community as well as to interested laypersons. [They] should be commended for selecting and editing twenty well-researched and thoughtfully argued contributions to provide us with what is arguably one of the most comprehensive and perceptive treatments to date of conflict and conflict resolution in Africa from both a historical and contemporary perspective.