Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa

<p>This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding. </p><p>With a range of perspectives the chapters cover the full gamut of peacebuilding (i.e. the continuum between conflict prevention and post-war reconstruction) and address both micro and macro peacebuilding issues in the five regions of Africa. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on a single case study or few case studies in peacebuilding scholarship the chapters examine critical peacebuilding issues at the local state regional extra-regional and continental levels in Africa. </p><p>This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics peace and security studies regional organizations development studies state-building and more broadly to international relations public policy diplomacy international organizations and the wider social sciences.</p>