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Armed Conflict in Africa offers a multidisciplinary look at the causes and remedies of armed conflict in Africa. It contains a collection of essays written by leading African Studies scholars and designed for both the student and practitioner alike.

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The nine contributors to this volume examine the history of recent armed conflicts on the continent, each from different perspectives. Most address why Africa has been affected by what appears to be a rising tide of violence in recent times...Offers prescriptions or at least provides a framework for considering what would have to change to bring about a diminishment of these conflicts...The editors have collected a valuable set of maps in one of the appendices. Especially for those conflicts that took place before the days of internet and the extensive and detailed reports of the United Nations NGO's...Several of the chapters, when taken together, offer good examples of different explanations for causes of conflict in Africa. African Studies Quarterly ...modest in aim and achievement...the 24-page bibliography and 71-page 5,000-year chronology of African conflicts will be valuable to students. Recommended. CHOICE

The nine contributors to this volume examine the history of recent armed conflicts on the continent, each from different perspectives. Most address why Africa has been affected by what appears to be a rising tide of violence in recent times...Offers prescriptions or at least provides a framework for considering what would have to change to bring about a diminishment of these conflicts...The editors have collected a valuable set of maps in one of the appendices. Especially for those conflicts that took place before the days of internet and the extensive and detailed reports of the United Nations NGO's...Several of the chapters, when taken together, offer good examples of different explanations for causes of conflict in Africa. African Studies Quarterly ...modest in aim and achievement...the 24-page bibliography and 71-page 5,000-year chronology of African conflicts will be valuable to students. Recommended. Choice

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Carolyn Pumphrey is currently Coordinator for the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and for Duke University's Program in Asian Security Studies and teaches history at North Carolina State University. Her research interests are in the history of restraints on war. Rye M. Schwartz-Barcott is an active duty officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and President and Founder of Carolina For Kibera, Inc. (CFK), a Democracy and Human Rights Program of the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) that is supported, in part, by the Ford Foundation and World Bank.

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