Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comprehending African conflict / Adebayo Adedeji -- mastering African conflicts / Amadou Toumain Toure -- Obstacles to comprehension and barriers to the mastery of conflicts / Reginald Herbold Green -- Achieving good governance in post-conflict situations: the dialectic between conflict and good governance / Segun Odunuga -- Angola / Augusto Eduardo Kambwa [and others] -- Burundi / Joseph Gahama [and others] -- Liberia / Al-Hassan Conteh [and others] -- Rwanda / Emmanuel Gassana [and others] -- Sierra Leone / John Bobor Laggah, Joe A.D. Allie, and Roland S.V. Wright -- Angola: seeking to remedy the limitations and bias in media and scholarly coverage / Reginald Herbold Green -- The experience of Northern Mali: a history of the armed conflict / Bintou Sanan Kouca and Sicave Ag. Ecawell -- The experience of Northern Mali: democracy and the peace process / Aghatam Alhassane -- Nigeria: a victim of its own success / Segun Odunuga -- Understanding conflict in Somalia and Somaliland / Ismail Ahmed -- Towards a macro-economic framework for Somaliland's post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction / Reginald Herbold Green -- The role of non-African NGOs in African conflicts: the case of Rwanda / Ian Linden -- Consolidating peace through governance and regional cooperation: the Liberian experience / Anthony Barclay -- Which way forward: a panel discussion / Adebayo Adedeji [and others] -- Conclusions and recommendations on managing African conflicts in their political, economic, and social dimension / Working Group I -- An ongoing research programme directed at comprehending and mastering conflict / Working Group II -- ACDESS guidelines for the preparation of the national baseline papers -- The final communiqu�e of the regional consultative workshop on comprehending and mastering African conflicts.