Book contents
- Africa since Decolonization
- Africa since Decolonization
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 From the Golden Age to Conquest and Colonization
- 2 Decolonization and Liberation
- 3 Decolonization’s Legacies
- 4 External Influences
- 5 Africa’s Economy, 1960–2000
- 6 Economy, Socioeconomic Development, and Development Cooperation
- 7 States, Political Systems, and Actors
- 8 Intra-African Cooperation and Integration
- 9 Political Crises
- 10 Large-Scale Conflicts
- 11 International Conflict Management
- 12 African Actors’ Role in International Politics
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
11 - International Conflict Management
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2021
- Africa since Decolonization
- Africa since Decolonization
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 From the Golden Age to Conquest and Colonization
- 2 Decolonization and Liberation
- 3 Decolonization’s Legacies
- 4 External Influences
- 5 Africa’s Economy, 1960–2000
- 6 Economy, Socioeconomic Development, and Development Cooperation
- 7 States, Political Systems, and Actors
- 8 Intra-African Cooperation and Integration
- 9 Political Crises
- 10 Large-Scale Conflicts
- 11 International Conflict Management
- 12 African Actors’ Role in International Politics
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The term conflict management stands for a wide array of activities undertaken to prevent violent conflicts, to manage and end them once broken out, as well as to build peace and to avoid a recurrence of violence. Such activities include mediation between warring factions, military and civilian peacekeeping operations to oversee truces or peace agreements, peace enforcement, and post-conflict reconstruction, which comprises initiatives for state-building and socio-economic development amongst others. This chapter scrutinizes these activities and identifies factors that lead to peace. Itconcentrates on mediation and power-sharing as means to make peace, on military and civilian operations of international organizations as means to keep peace, as well as on the accommodation of spoilers, the design of peace operations, and transitional justice as means to build peace.
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- Africa since DecolonizationThe History and Politics of a Diverse Continent, pp. 237 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021