Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa

Carlson Anyangwe

doi:10.5771/9781666910377

Summary

Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa highlights Africa’s tragedy of endless conflicts. Rich in case studies, it examines violent conflicts and Africa’s approaches to conflict resolution. The case studies show that Africa continues to be a chronically unstable space tormented especially by frequent and devastating civil wars of which ethnicity, religion, and bad governance are some of the root causes. These conflicts have occasioned massive human rights abuses, arrested development, reversed or slowed economic growth, created a vicious circle of instability and hunger, and exacerbated levels of poverty and disease in the continent. In the final part of this book, Carlson Anyangwe considers indigenous mechanisms for settling disputes, post-conflict transitional justice systems, and the African Union conflict-resolution mechanism that relies, as it does, on the United Nations’ peace and security framework and the peace and security functions of the African regional economic organizations.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1036-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1037-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 334
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Acronyms No access
3. Preface No access
1. Elucidation of Some Terms No access
2. Conflict Theory No access
3. Africa’s Recurrent Conflicts No access
4. Conflict Mitigation and Resolution No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Early Territorial Claims No access
    2. Later Territorial Claims No access
    3. 1. British Overseas Possessions No access
      2. French Overseas Territories No access
      3. Spanish and Portuguese Overseas Territories No access
  2. 1. Little Known Boundary Disputes No access
    2. 1. Botswana and Namibia: Legal Status of the Kasikili/Sedudu Island in the Chobe River No access
      2. Burkina Faso and Mali: Disputed Alignment of the Frontier Line No access
      3. Cameroon and Nigeria: Territorial Claim to the Bakassi Peninsula No access
    3. Preference for Settlement by the ICJ rather than through Bilateral Diplomacy No access
  3. Notes No access
2. 1. 1. Cameroun/Equatorial Guinea No access
    2. Tunisia/Libya No access
  2. 1. Cameroun/Equatorial Guinea No access
    2. Cameroun/Nigeria No access
    3. Uganda/Kenya No access
    4. Equatorial Guinea/Gabon No access
    5. Eritrea/ Djibouti No access
  3. 1. Côte d’Ivoire/Ghana No access
    2. Guinea-Bissau/Guinea-Conakry No access
    3. Guinea-Bissau/Senegal No access
  4. 1. Somalia/Kenya No access
  5. 1. Impact of Coastal Geography No access
  6. Marked Preference for International Judicial Settlement of Maritime Disputes No access
  7. 1. Egypt v. Sudan No access
  8. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Angola No access
    2. Guinea-Bissau No access
    3. Zimbabwe No access
  2. 1. Algeria No access
    2. Chad No access
    3. Central African Republic No access
    4. Côte d’Ivoire No access
    5. Senegal No access
    6. Somalia No access
    7. Sudan No access
  3. 1. Burundi No access
    2. Cameroun No access
    3. Congo Brazzaville No access
    4. Djibouti No access
    5. Kenya No access
    6. Liberia No access
    7. Mozambique No access
    8. Rwanda No access
    9. South Sudan No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. 1. Egypt No access
    2. Libya No access
    3. Tunisia No access
  2. 1. Congo Kinshasa No access
    2. Ethiopia No access
    3. Mali No access
    4. Niger No access
    5. Nigeria No access
    6. Sierra Leone No access
3. 1. Elite, Communal and Revolutionary Conflicts No access
  2. No Clear Pathway for Conflict Management No access
  3. 1. The Church No access
    2. Intergovernmental Organizations No access
  4. The Politics of Ethnicity No access
  5. The Habit of Intervention by Outside Powers No access
  6. Child Soldiers No access
  7. Appeal to Religion and Occultism No access
  8. Funding Civil Wars No access
  9. Impact of Civil War on the Country Concerned No access
  10. Notes No access
4. 1. 1. Morocco-Algeria No access
    2. Burkina Faso-Mali No access
    3. Chad-Libya No access
    4. Sudan-South Sudan No access
  2. 1. Somalia-Ethiopia No access
    2. Morocco and Adjacent Countries No access
  3. 1. Uganda and Tanzania No access
    2. Libya/Egypt No access
    3. Sudan-Chad No access
  4. 1. 1. The Six-Day War No access
      2. The Yom Kippur War No access
    2. Uganda-Israel No access
    3. Somalia-United States of America No access
    4. Libya-Euro/American Coalition No access
  5. 1. South West Africa (Namibia) No access
    2. Eritrea No access
    3. 1. Ifni No access
      2. Mauritania No access
      3. Morocco No access
    4. Ambazonia No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. Meaning of ‘Terrorism’, ‘Terrorist Act’ and ‘Terrorist’ No access
  2. Terrorist Movements in Africa No access
  3. State Terrorism and Accountability for Acts of Terrorism No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. International Legal Framework No access
  2. African Legal Framework No access
  3. Grave Human Rights Abuses in Implementing Counter-Terrorism Measures No access
  4. Notes No access
3. 1. International Standards: Judicial Safeguards No access
  2. Africa and the Death Penalty for ‘Terrorist’ Offences No access
  3. Would Killing Terrorists Deter Terrorism? No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. The Palaver in West Africa No access
  2. The mato oput among the Acholi in Uganda No access
  3. The gada System among the Oromo in Ethiopia No access
  4. Shared African Values No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Gacaca Tribunals No access
  3. Hybrid Justice Mechanism No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Note No access
3. 1. UN Peace and Security Framework No access
  2. The OAU Peace and Security Arrangement No access
  3. The AU Peace and Security Arrangement No access
  4. The African Economic Communities and Peace and Security Functions No access
  5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 315 - 328
Index No access Pages 329 - 332
About the Author No access Pages 333 - 334