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Peace agreements have become necessary and legitimate tools for resolving conflicts and bringing about durable peace. This book carefully analyzes African experiences with peace processes in order to identify how these can be enhanced to ensure positive and sustainable peace in strife-ridden areas. Case studies from eight African countries provide a unique opportunity to understand the factors that promote or undermine the success of peace agreements. The agreements studied include those of Angola, Burundi, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda. The selection is based on the fact that they were finalized prior to 2005 and therefore allow for a richer analysis of their successes and shortfalls. The book will inform better practice in articulating and implementing peace agreements in Africa. [Subject: African Studies, Peace Studies, International Relations, Politics]
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Grounded in the belief that the practice of peace-making and academic peace research should be closely interlinked fields of activity with much to learn from each other, Maina and Melander’s book searches the record of select peacemaking processes in African civil wars in order to identify lessons of both academic and practical relevance. They examine the peace agreements of South Sudan, Chad, Somalia, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Angola--all finalized prior to 2010. Analyzing their successes and shortfalls, each chapter studies a specific country. The editors and contributors look at past agreements to enhance understanding of the cases presented, their current standing, and the peace-building challenges and likely threats that can be addressed in the process of crafting future peace agreements. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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