State of Peacebuilding in Africa

Terence McNamee is Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholars, based in South Africa. Educated in his native Canada and the UK, he has written and worked on development, governance and security issues for more than two decades, mainly in Africa.Monde Muyangwa is Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She previously served as Academic Dean of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, and as Director of Research and Policy at the National Summit on Africa, all in the USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Learning Lessons from Peace Operations in Africa.- 3. The Economics of Peacebuilding: International Organizations for Dealing with Victor and Vanquished.- 4. Religion and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa.- 5. Field Reflections on Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Social Imperative of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration.- 6. United Nations Peacekeeping and Human Rights, Refugees, and Internal Displacement.- 7. Sustaining Women, Peace, and Security: The Role of UN Peacekeeping in Africa.- 8. Local Peace Committees and Grassroots Peacebuildiing in Africa.- 9. Three Decades of Disarmament, Demobilization, Demilitarization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead.- 10. The Changing Nature of Elections in Africa: Impact on Peacebuilding.- 11. Contributions of Early Warning to the African Peace and Security Architecture: The Experience of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP).- 12. The African Union in Peacebuilding in Africa.- 13. Trends in SADC Mediation and Long-Term Conflict Mediation.- 14. The International Criminal Court's Impact on Peacebuilding in Africa.- 15. Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding: Incompatible or Complementary?.- 16. Peace Management and Conflict Resolution: A PRactitioner's Perspective.- 17. Peacebuilding as State-Building? Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.- 18. Violence, Peacebuilding and Elite Bargains in Mozambique since Independence.- 19. The Dog That Did Not Bark: Why Has Sierra Leone Not Returned to War After Peacekeepers Left?.- 20. Lessons in Failure: Peacebuilding in Sudan/South Sudan.- 21. Such a Long Journey: Peacebuilding After Genocide in Rwanda.- 22. Crisis and Transition in the Sahel.- 23. Conclusion.

“This edited volume is a bracing read due to its description of the many failings of peacebuilding in Africa, and it offers, if not always systematically, useful thoughts on how peacebuilding might be pointed in a direction that takes account of politics and viability.” (David Harris, International Affairs, Vol. 97 (4), 2021)