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Title Violence, political culture & development in Africa / edited by Preben Kaarsholm
Published Oxford : James Currey, 2006

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Description xi, 208 pages ; 24 cm
Series Global & comparative series ; no. 6
Global and comparative series ; no. 6
Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 6
Global & comparative series ; no. 6
Contents Contents States of failure, societies in collapse? Understandings of violent conflict in Africa / Preben Kaarsholm -- Insurgencies in the shadow of state collapse / William Reno -- Societal view on violence & war : conflict & militia formation in Eastern Congo / Koen Vlassenroot -- Debating the Rwandan genocide / Nigel Eltringham -- Darfur : peace, genocide & crimes against humanity in Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson -- Legacies of violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander -- Past as contested terrain : commemorating new sites of memory in war-torn Ethiopia / Alessandro Triulzi -- Violence as signifier : politics & generational struggle in KwaZulu-Natal / Preben Kaarsholm -- War, violence & videotapes : media & localised ideoscapes of the Liberian civil war / Mats Utas -- Forced labour & civil war : agrarian underpinnings of the Sierra Leone conflict / Paul Richards
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Political violence -- Africa -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001576 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Kaarsholm, Preben, 1948-
LC no. 2007275243
ISBN 0852558899 hardback
0852558945 paperback
Other Titles Violence, political culture and development in Africa