Liberal peace and post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa /
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| Author / Creator: | Tom, Patrick, author. |
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| Imprint: | London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017] ©2017 |
| Description: | xii, 246 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rethinking peace and conflict studies Rethinking peace and conflict studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11005411 |
Table of Contents:
- Liberal Peace and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; The Aims of the Book; The Structure of the Book; 2 Africa Before, During and After Colonial Rule; Introduction; Africa's Past Matters; European Representations of Africa; Indigenous African Political Organization; Checks Against the Abuse of Power; Colonial Rule and State Power; Colonial Inheritance and Post-Colonial Challenges in Africa; Centralization of Power; Neo-Patrimonial and Clientelistic Politics; Foreign Intervention.
- Intrastate Conflicts in the Post-Cold War PeriodConclusion; Notes; 3 Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Liberal Peace; Conceptualizing 'Post-Conflict'; Post-Conflict Peacebuilding; Peacebuilding Debates; International Post-Conflict Statebuilding Interventions; Approaches to Statebuilding; Does One Size Fit All?; Peacebuilding as Liberal Peace; Liberal Peace and Democratic Peace Thesis; Liberalism; Liberalism as a Project; Civil Society; The State; Conclusion; Notes; 4 The Liberal Peace in Question; Political Liberalization, Free Markets and Peace; Democratization and Violent Conflicts.
- Paris' Institutionalization Before Liberalization ApproachCriticisms of the IBL Strategy; Thinking Anew About International Peacebuilding and Statebuilding; Using Local Cultural Resources in Peacebuilding; On the Crisis of the Liberal Peace; Defenders of the Liberal Peace Challenge Critics to Offer an Alternative; Post-Conflict Environments as 'Contact Zones'; Power in International Peace-Support Interventions; Resistance and International Peacebuilding; Conceptualizing Hybridity; Liberal Peacebuilding as Neo-Colonial or Neo-Imperial?; Conclusion; Notes.
- 5 Power, Resistance and Hybridity in International PeacebuildingA Search for Alternatives; Hybridity in Contemporary Peacebuilding and Statebuilding; On Hybrid Political Orders; Belloni's Typology of Hybrid Peace Governance; From Liberal Peace to Post-Liberal Peace; Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Struggle for Sierra Leone; Geography and a Fragmented Polity; Colonial Legacies; Socioeconomic and Political Polarization; Chiefs, Power and Local Politics; British Consolidation of Colonial Rule and the Creation of Powerful Chiefs; Violence in Chiefdoms; Politics in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone.
- Explaining the Short-Term Causes of the Sierra Leonean Civil WarA New Form of Barbarism; A Crisis of Patrimonial Politics; Lumpen Youths and the Culture of Resistance; Liberia and Other Regional Actors; A Brief Overview of the Civil War in Sierra Leone; The 1992 Coup; The 1996 Multi-party Elections and AFRC-RUF Challenges; A Framework for Liberal Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone: Lome Accord; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Building a liberal Peace in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone; A Liberal Peace Project in Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone a Success Story of Liberal Peace
- and Statebuilding?