The politics of peacebuilding in Africa / edited by Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Amanda Coffie, Mary Boatemaa Setrana, and Akin Taiwo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Social Justice Perspective of Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa / Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Amanda Coffie, Mary Boatemaa Setrana, and Akin Taiwo -- Fractured Intimacies: Oil Induced 'Violence' in the Oil-Rich Albertine Region, Western Uganda / Eria Serwajja -- Why Peacebuilding Fails: The Experience of Managing Conflicts between Farmers and Herders in Nigeria / Patience Adzande -- Evaluating Practices of Civil Society Organizations in the Prevention of Electoral Violence in C�ote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso / Ars�ene Brice Bado -- Reconceptualising Peacebuilding: Insights from Young Women in Zimbabwe / Anna Chitando -- Peacebuilding through Religious Training: The Case Study of Morocco's Training Program of African Imams / Salim Hmimnat -- Divided Peacebuilders: Christian Religious Leaders and the Search for Peace in Nigeria, 1966-1970 / Jacinta C. Nwaka -- Integrative Approach to Peacebuilding in Africa: The experience of the Kuria Community of Kenya and Tanzania / Iddy Ramadhani Magoti -- Negotiating State Intervention in Pastoral Areas: Local Elites as Brokers for Peace / Fana Gebresenbet, Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta and Yonas Tariku -- The Limits of Environmental Peacebuilding: Challenges to Cooperation in the Eastern Nile / Rawia Tawfik -- Game Changers in Asymmetrical Conflicts: Zimbabwean Diaspora Media Reporting of Homeland Conflict / Tendai Chari -- Gender Approach to Peacebuilding in Cameroon and Central African Republic: The Case Study of the Oko'o Nga'a mo (Women of Peace) / Amina Djoulde -- The Evolving Partnership between the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States in Peacebuilding / Richard Alemdjrodo -- Women, Peace and Security: Investigating the Implementation of the UNSCR 1325 in Northern Kenya and its Policy Implications / Linnet Hamasi Henry -- Conclusion: Ideas, Actors, Institutions, and Future Research Direction / Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Amanda Coffie, Mary Boatemaa Setrana, and Akin Taiwo.

"This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding. With a range of perspectives, the chapters cover the full gamut of peacebuilding (i.e. the continuum between conflict prevention and post-war reconstruction) and address both micro and macro peacebuilding issues in the five regions of Africa. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on a single case study or few case studies in peacebuilding scholarship, the chapters examine critical peacebuilding issues at the local, state, regional, extra-regional, and continental levels in Africa. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, peace and security studies, regional organizations, development studies, state-building, and more broadly to international relations, public policy, diplomacy, international organizations, and the wider social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.