Research Catalog

Title

The state of Africa : post-conflict reconstruction and development / edited by Dirk Kotzé and Hussein Solomon.

Publication

Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kotzé, Dirk, 1961-
• Solomon, Hussein.
• Africa Institute of South Africa.

Description

viii, 177 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Post-conflict reconstruction is not a new phenomenon but can be linked to the Marshall Plan after the Second World War. Reconstruction efforts in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, have seen a revival of the concept in the early 21st century. In Africa, post-conflict reconstruction has become more prominent as a result of the peace processes in the DRC, Sudan, Burundi and the Comoros. As a result, the African Union and NEPAD have formulated policy frameworks to deal with post conflict reconstruction and development. As part of the UN's reform, its new Peacebuilding Commission is another institution which takes responsibility for post-conflict reconstruction. This publication focuses on a number of themes including, gender and post-conflict reconstruction, the transformation of war economies into peace economies, elections in Africa in the context of post conflict reconstruction, constitutional negotiations and power-sharing arrangements, and the predicament of ethnic identities in the DRC. The NEPAD framework is also analysed in detail. All of these themes serve as indicators for Africa of the lessons to be learnt from the post-conflict reconstruction processes already in progress.

Subject

• Since 1960
• Postwar reconstruction > Africa
• Peace-building > Africa
• Conflict management > Africa
• Democratization > Africa
• Contested elections > Africa
• Ethnic conflict > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• War > Economic aspects > Africa
• Women and peace > Africa
• Conflict management
• Contested elections
• Democratization
• Ethnic conflict
• Peace-building
• Postwar reconstruction
• War > Economic aspects
• Women and peace
• economic development > Africa
• Africa > History > 1960-
• Africa
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Congo-Kinshasa > ethnic conflicts > civil wars
• Africa > democracy > elections > women > conflict resolution > peacebuilding

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-177).

Contents

The importance of post-conflict reconstruction in breaking the cycle of 'return conflicts' / Hussein Solomon -- Gender, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in Africa / Heidi Hudson -- Elections and conflict in Africa / Claude Kabemba -- Negotiations, GNU, power-sharing and post-conflict reconstruction in South Africa / Leon Wessels -- From war economies to peace economies / Amelia du Rand -- Ethnic identity in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Alexander Wright -- Post-conflict reconstruction / Dirk Kotzé -- The African Union draft policy framework for PCRD -- African post-conflict reconstruction policy framework.

ISBN

• 9780798302111
• 0798302119

LCCN

99940259004

OCLC

• ocn300017149
• 300017149
• SCSB-1531805

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library