TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Paul D.
TI  - War & Conflict in Africa
SN  - 9780745645452
AV  - DT30.5 .W66
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity
KW  - Politics and war
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - krige
KW  - konflikter
KW  - politiske forhold
KW  - samfundsforhold
KW  - historie
KW  - Politique et guerre
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Coop�eration internationale
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
N1  - Contexts: Counting Africa's conflicts (and their casualties) ; The terrain of struggle. Ingredients: Neopatrimonialism ; Resources ; Sovereignty ; Ethnicity ; Religion. Responses: Organization-building ; Peacemaking ; Peacekeeping ; Aid. Conclusion. Apendices
N2  - After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In addressing these and other questions, Paul Williams offers the first comparative assessment of more than three hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa between 1990 and 2009--from the continental catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the environmental disaster in the Niger Delta and mass atrocities in Sudan. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace"--Page [4] of cover
ER  -