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Managing Conflicts in Africa’s Democratic Transitions
ISBN-13:
9780739172643
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
370
Autor:
Akanmu G. Adebayo
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book explores the nascent and complex terrain of democratization and peaceful political transitions in Africa. It analyzes major election-related conflicts across the continent, explains their root causes and major consequences, and offers measures that may be undertaken to prevent, manage, and resolve election-induced conflicts. It charts a path for the future political and democratic stability in Africa.
The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium, orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing military coups but deaths and destructions came in the wake of elections in many countries. Inspired by decades-long pro-democracy movements across Africa that culminated in the Arab Spring of 2010-2011, and motivated by the desire to find long-term solutions to election-related violent conflicts in the continent, this book explores the terrain of democratization, elections, and conflict management. It raises and answers many questions, such as: What are the root causes of election-related conflicts? How free, fair, and credible are elections in many African countries? What institutional mechanisms are available for ballot and voter security and for mandate protection? What has been the role of civil society organizations in conflict prevention and management? What are the responsibilities of the international community, especially regional organizations like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), in conflict resolution? What indigenous mechanisms for conflict management have been identified that may be proactively engaged?
Part One: Understanding Africa’s Democratization, Elections, and Conflicts
Chapter 1: Dreams and Nightmares: Democratization, Elections, and Conflicts in Africa
Chux Ibekwe and Akanmu G. Adebayo
Chapter 2: Security in Post-Civil War Democratic Transitions in Africa
Abiodun Alao and Mike Adeyeye
Chapter 3: Traumatics: The Representation of Trauma in Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name
Oumar Cherif Diop
Part Two: Domestic and International Issues and Actors
Chapter 4: Democratization and Post-Election Conflicts in Nigeria since Independence: A Historical Reconsideration
Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina
Chapter 5: Incumbency as a Factor: Appropriation of State Security Resources and Electoral Governance in Nigeria
’Lai Olurode
Chapter 6: Religion and Political Activism in Egypt
Samy Gerges
Chapter 7: Democratization in Senegal: The Failure of the “Sopi” Revolution
Haluk B. Bingol and Richard Vengroff
Chapter 8: The Involution of Democracy in Lusophone West Africa
Brandon D. Lundy
Chapter 9: Conflict Analysis of the 2007 Post-election Violence in Kenya
Mara J. Roberts
Chapter 10: The French Press and Position on Post-Election Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire
Edoh Agbehonou
Chapter 11: United States Foreign Policy Responses to Africa’s Transition Conflicts
Andrew Ewoh
Part Three: Conflict Resolution Options
Chapter 12: Post-Election Conflict Resolution in Africa: Lessons from African Peace Paradigms
Abdul Karim Bangura
Chapter 13: An African Model? Conflict Management in Ghana’s 2008 Presidential Elections
Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Chapter 14: Lessons from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for Managing Africa’s Conflicts
Edward L. Mienie
Chapter 15: Could Forgiveness and Amnesty Be a Panacea to Kenya’s Post-Election Conflict Era?
Joseph W. Nasongo, Lydiah L. M. Wamocha, and Judith S. K. Achoka
Chapter 16: Establishing Electoral Conflict Management Panels: A Case Study of South Africa
Ilona Tip
Chapter 17: Post-Electoral Conflict in la Côte d’Ivoire: Road Map to Peace
Sarah O. Danso
Chapter 1: Dreams and Nightmares: Democratization, Elections, and Conflicts in Africa
Chux Ibekwe and Akanmu G. Adebayo
Chapter 2: Security in Post-Civil War Democratic Transitions in Africa
Abiodun Alao and Mike Adeyeye
Chapter 3: Traumatics: The Representation of Trauma in Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name
Oumar Cherif Diop
Part Two: Domestic and International Issues and Actors
Chapter 4: Democratization and Post-Election Conflicts in Nigeria since Independence: A Historical Reconsideration
Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina
Chapter 5: Incumbency as a Factor: Appropriation of State Security Resources and Electoral Governance in Nigeria
’Lai Olurode
Chapter 6: Religion and Political Activism in Egypt
Samy Gerges
Chapter 7: Democratization in Senegal: The Failure of the “Sopi” Revolution
Haluk B. Bingol and Richard Vengroff
Chapter 8: The Involution of Democracy in Lusophone West Africa
Brandon D. Lundy
Chapter 9: Conflict Analysis of the 2007 Post-election Violence in Kenya
Mara J. Roberts
Chapter 10: The French Press and Position on Post-Election Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire
Edoh Agbehonou
Chapter 11: United States Foreign Policy Responses to Africa’s Transition Conflicts
Andrew Ewoh
Part Three: Conflict Resolution Options
Chapter 12: Post-Election Conflict Resolution in Africa: Lessons from African Peace Paradigms
Abdul Karim Bangura
Chapter 13: An African Model? Conflict Management in Ghana’s 2008 Presidential Elections
Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Chapter 14: Lessons from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for Managing Africa’s Conflicts
Edward L. Mienie
Chapter 15: Could Forgiveness and Amnesty Be a Panacea to Kenya’s Post-Election Conflict Era?
Joseph W. Nasongo, Lydiah L. M. Wamocha, and Judith S. K. Achoka
Chapter 16: Establishing Electoral Conflict Management Panels: A Case Study of South Africa
Ilona Tip
Chapter 17: Post-Electoral Conflict in la Côte d’Ivoire: Road Map to Peace
Sarah O. Danso