Africa, African, Political Science, International Relations 

While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts. The toll of these conflicts is monumental in terms of war damage to productivity, scarce resources diverted to armaments and military organizations, and the resulting insecurity, displacement, and destruction. At the same time, Africans, in response to internal demands as well as to international changes, have begun to focus their attention and energies on these problems and are trying innovative ways to resolve differences by nonviolent means. The outcomes of these attempts have urgent and complex implications for the future of the continent with respect to human rights, principles of democracy, and economic development.In this book, African, European, and U.S. experts examine these important issues and the prospects for conflict management and resolution in Africa. They review the scholarship in resolution in light of international changes now taking place. Addressing the undying, internal causes of conflict, they question whether global events will promote peace or threaten to unleash even more conflict. The authors focus their analysis on the issues involved in African conflicts and examine the areas in need of the most dramatic changes. They offer specific recommendations for dealing with current problems, but caution that unless policymakers confront the security situation in Africa, further destruction to national unity and political and economic stability is imminent. Case studies and themes for further, long-term research are recommended. - from Amzon 

Table of Contents
Part 1 Pertinent Changes in the International Climate
1. Peace in Africa ? : the influence of regional and international change by Raymond W. Copson ..............................................................................................P. 19
2. Africa and Gorbachev's "new realism" by Winrich Kühne ............................P. 42
3. The implications of international changes for African states Ibrahim S.R. Msabaha ..............................................................................................................P. 68
Part 2 Implication for Conflict Resolution
4. The implications of crises and conflicts in the upper Nile Valley by Peter Anyang' Nyong'o ..................................................................................................P. 95
5. Perspectives on conflict resolution in South Africa by Tom Lodge ..............P. 115
6. Theories of political violence and revolution in the Third World by Ted Robert Gurr ............................................................................................................P. 153
7. An interactive model for state-ethnic relations by Donald Rothchild ...........P. 190
Part 4 The Economic of Conflict
8. Strategic confrontation versus economic survival in southern Africa / Thomas Ohlson ..................................................................................................P. 219
9. The effect of conflict on the economies of Third World countries by Nicole Ball
............................................................................................................P. 272
10. The economics of conflict among marginalized peoples of eastern Africa by Atieno Odhiambo ....................................................................................P.292
Part 5 Conflict Management and Resolution
11. Conflict reduction : prevention, management, and resolution by I. William Zartman ...............................................................................................P. 299
12. Self-determination, territorial integrity, and the African state system by Crawford Young .....................................................................................P. 320
13. The organization of African unity and the resolution of Africa's conflicts by William J. Foltz .......................................................................................P.347
14. Conflict and conflict resolution in Africa : a conceptual framework by Stephen John Stedman. ......................................................................................P. 367