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Title African democracy and development : challenges for post-conflict African nations / edited by Cassandra R. Veney and Dick Simpson
Published Lanham [MD] : Lexington Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 306 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Cassandra R. Veney -- No justice, no peace : the elusive search for justice and reconciliation in Sierra Leone / Sylvia Macauley -- The role of ex-combatants in Mozambique / Jessica Schafer -- Memory controversies in post-genocide Rwanda : implications for peacebuilding / Elisabeth King -- Land reform, social justice, and reconstruction : challenges for post-genocide Rwanda / Helen Hintjens -- Elections as a stress test of democratization in societies : a comparison of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo / John Yoder -- Partners or adversaries? : NGOs and the state in postwar Sierra Leone / Fredline A.O. M'Cormack-Hale -- Chieftancy and reconstruction in Sierra Leone / Arthur Abraham -- The role of African diasporas in reconstruction / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- The role of the African Union in reconstruction in Africa / Thomas Kwasi Tieku -- Governance challenges in Sierra Leone / Osman Gbla -- Challenges of governance reform in Liberia / Amos Sawyer -- Achieving development and democracy / Dick Simpson
Summary This book is an examination of particular African countries that are in the post-conflict phase. They have experienced horrific civil wars that left thousands of their citizens internally displaced or as refugees in surrounding countries, and some fled to countries in the global north. The countries examined in the book are in the process of rebuilding institutions of governance that include judicial, legislative, and executive branches. In sum, the countries under review in the book are in the process of harness
Notes Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password
"The chapters in this edited volume are the result of a conference held in April 2009 at the University of Illinois at Chicago"--Introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Postwar reconstruction -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
Postwar reconstruction -- Sierra Leone -- Congresses
Nation-building -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
Nation-building -- Sierra Leone -- Congresses
Democratization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
Economic development -- Political aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Democratization
Economic development -- Political aspects
Nation-building
Postwar reconstruction
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sierra Leone
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Veney, Cassandra Rachel, 1959-
Simpson, Dick W
ISBN 0739175491
0739175505
9780739175491
9780739175507