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Managing Conflicts in Africa's Democratic Transitions
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2012
Summary
The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium, orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing military coups but deaths and destructions came in the wake of elections in many countries. Inspired by decades-long pro-democracy movements across Africa that culminated in the Arab Spring of 2010-2011, and motivated by the desire to find long-term solutions to election-related violent conflicts in the continent, this book explores the terrain of democratization, elections, and conflict management. It raises and answers many questions, such as: What are the root causes of election-related conflicts? How free, fair, and credible are elections in many African countries? What institutional mechanisms are available for ballot and voter security and for mandate protection? What has been the role of civil society organizations in conflict prevention and management? What are the responsibilities of the international community, especially regional organizations like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), in conflict resolution? What indigenous mechanisms for conflict management have been identified that may be proactively engaged?
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7263-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7264-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
339
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Preface & Acknowledgments No access
1 Dreams and Nightmares: Democratization, Elections, and Conflicts in Africa No access
2 Security in Post-Civil War Democratic Transitions in Africa No access
3 Traumatics: The Representation of Trauma in Yvonne Vera’s No access
4 Democratization and Post-Election Conflicts in Nigeria since Independence: A Historical Reconsideration No access
5 Incumbency as a Factor: Appropriation of State Security Resources and Electoral Governance in Nigeria No access
6 Religion and Political Activism in Egypt No access
7 Democratization in Senegal: The Failure of the Sopi Revolution No access
8 The Involution of Democracy in Lusophone West Africa No access
9 Conflict Analysis of the 2007 Post-election Violence in Kenya No access
10 The French Press and Position on Post-Election Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire No access
11 United States Foreign Policy Responses to Africa’s Transitional Conflicts No access
12 Post-Election Conflict Resolution in Africa: Lessons from AfricanPeace Paradigms No access
13 An African Model? Conflict Management in Ghana’s 2008 Presidential Elections No access
14 Lessons from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for Managing Africa’s Conflicts No access
15 Could Forgiveness and Amnesty Be a Panacea for Kenya’s Post-Election Conflict Era? No access
16 Establishing Electoral Conflict Management Panels: A Case Study of South Africa No access
17 Post-Electoral Conflict in la Côte d’Ivoire: Road Map to Peace No access
