Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance

Abstract

* List of Tables and Figures * Contributors * Abbreviations * Foreword * Preface and Acknowledgements * Map of Sub-Sahara Africa in Conflict, 1999 * Part 1: Issues at Stake * 1. Comprehending African Conflicts - Adebayo Adedeji * 2. Mastering African Conflicts - Amadou Toumani Toure * 3. Obstacles to Comprehension and Barriers to the Mastery of Conflicts - Reginald Herbold Green * 4. Achieving Good Governance in Post-Conflict Situations: The Dialiectic between Conflict and Good Governance - Segun Odunuga * Part 2: Countries in Conflict: A Critical Stocktaking by Country Research Teams * 5. Angola - Augusto Eduardo Kambwa, Daniel Mingas Casimiro, Ngongo Joao Pedro and Lucas Bhengui Ngonda * 6. Burundi - Joseph Gahama, S. Makoroka, C. Nditije, O. Ntahombaye and O. Sindayizeruka * 7. Liberia - Al-Hassan Conteh, Joseph S. Guannu, Hall Badio and Klaneh W. Bruce * 8. Rwanda - Emmanuel Gassana, Butera Jean-Bosco, Byanafashe Deo and Alice Kareikezi * 9. Sierra Leone 0 John Bobor Laggah, Joe A. D. Allie and Roland S. V. Wright * Part 3: Transitions from Conflict to Peace and Good Governance: Lessons of Experience * 10. Angola: Seeking to Remedy the Limitations and Bias in Media and Scholarly Coverage - Reginald Herbold Green * 11. The Experience of Northern Mali * A: History of the Armed Conflict - Bintou Sanan Kouca and Sicave AG Ecawell * B: Democracy and the Peace Process - Aghatam Alhassane * 12. Nigeria: A Victim of its Own Success - Segun Odunuga * 13. Understanding Conflict in Somalia and Somaliland - Ismail Ahmed * 14. Towards a Macro-Economic Framework for Somaliland's Post-War Rehabilitation and Reconstruction - Reginald Herbold Green * 15. The Role of Non-African NGO's in African Conflicts: The Case of Rwanda - Ian Linda * 16. Consolidating Peace through Governance and Regional Cooperation: The Liberian Experience - Anthony Barclay * Part 4: Strategizing the Way Forward * 17. Which Way Forward? A Panel Discussion * A: Panel Discussions - Adebayo Adedeji (ACDESS) (Chairman), Emmanuel Gasana (Rwanda), Al-Hassan Conteh (Liberia), Joseph Gahama (Burundi), Trevor Gordon-Somers (UNDP) * B: Conclusions and Recommendations on Managing African Conflicts in their Political, Economic and Social Dimensions - Working Group 1 * C: An ongoing Research Programme Directed at Comprehending and Mastering Conflict - Working Group 2 * Appendixes * Index