African Democracy and Development

Challenges for Post-Conflict African Nations
Herausgeber: Veney, Cassandra Rachel; Simpson, Dick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is examines particular African countries that are recovering from civil wars that left thousands of their citizens internally displaced or as refugees in surrounding countries. The countries examined in the book are in the process of rebuilding institutions of governance that include judicial, legislative, and executive branches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780739175491
• ISBN-10: 0739175491
• Artikelnr.: 36400485

Autorenporträt

Cassandra Veney is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University/Los Angeles, California. Her primary area of research has concentrated on the politics of forced migration in Kenya and Tanzania. Dick Simpson is a professor and former Department Head in the Department of Polticial Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also a former Chicago Alderman whose primary areas of research include Sierra Leone and American politics, elections, and urban politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Demobilization and Reconstruction Chapter 1: Introduction Cassandra
R. Veney Chapter 2: No Justice, No Peace: The Elusive Search for Justice
and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone Sylvia Macauley Chapter 3: The Role of
Ex-Combatants in Mozambique Jessica Schafer Chapter 4: Memory Controversies
in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Implications for Peacebuilding Elisabeth King Part
II: Institutional Challenges Chapter 5: Land Reform, Social Justice, and
Reconstruction: Challenges for Post-Genocide Rwanda Helen Hintjens Chapter
6: Elections as a Stress Test of Democratization in Societies: A Comparison
of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo John
Yoder Chapter 7: Partners or Adversaries? NGOs and the State in Postwar
Sierra Leone Fredline A.O. M'Cormack-Hale Chapter 8: Chieftancy and
Reconstruction in Sierra Leone Arthur Abraham Part III: Partnerships on the
Way Forward Chapter 9: The Role of African Diasporas in Reconstruction Paul
Tiyambe Zeleza Chapter 10: The Role of the African Union in Reconstruction
in Africa Thomas Kwasi Tieku Chapter 11: Governance Challenges in Sierra
Leone Osman Gbla 12: Challenges of Governance Reform in Liberia Amos Sawyer
Part IV: The Future of Fragile States Chapter 13: Achieving Development and
Democracy Dick Simpson