Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa
This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of regional economic communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa.
Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on comparative analysis of the status, role, and performances of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), it examines particular constraints to their effective participation in regional initiatives. Focussing on inadequate technical capabilities, the complicity of state and non-state actors in conflicts within a region, and the domestic politics of member states, it additionally addresses related theories and practices of peacekeeping, security, development, and the peacebuilding nexus. It also engages provisioning, regionalism, and regional peacekeeping interventions, the legal and institutional framework of RECs, and civil society and peacebuilding. Fundamentally, the book asks how effective the alliances and partnerships are in promoting regional peace and security and how much they are compromised by the intervention of external powers and actors, exploring new ideas and actions that may strengthen capacities to address the peacebuilding challenges on the continent effectively.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics and studies, peace and security studies, regionalism studies, policy practitioners in the field of African peacebuilding, and more broadly to international relations.
Victor Adetula is a Professor of International Relations and Development Studies at the University of Jos, Nigeria.
Redie Bereketeab is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.
Cyril Obi is a Program Director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA.
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Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa
Lessons from ECOWAS and IGAD
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Victor Adetula, Redie Bereketeab, and Cyril Obi
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Contents
Victor Adetula, Redie Bereketeab, and Cyril Obi
Olugbemi Jaiyebo and Victor Adetula
Redie Bereketeab
Aderemi Ajibewa and Jubril Agbolade Shittu
Chukwuemeka B. Eze
Amadu Sesay
Kehinde Olusola Olayode
Oshita O. Oshita and Warisu Oyesina Alli
Senai W. Andemariam
Nureldin Satti
Kizito Sabala
Kasaija Phillip Apuuli
Kassahun Berhanu
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
Jacob D. Chol
Editors
Victor Adetula is a Professor of International Relations and Development Studies at the University of Jos-Nigeria. He was most recently the Head of Research at The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala-Sweden (20152019), and previously a Claude Ake Visiting Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, University of Uppsala, Sweden (2013), a Professor & Head of Africa and Regional Integration Unit at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos (2012), and a Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of African Studies at the Centre for International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011). His current research areas include comparative regional integration systems, EuropeAfrica relations, Africas international relations, and peace and conflict.
Redie Bereketeab , PhD, is an associate professor of sociology. His publications have appeared in Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, James Currey, Pluto Press, Red Sea Press, Adonis and Abbey, African Studies, the African Studies Review, African and Asian Studies, Studies of Ethnicity and Nationalism, the African Journal of International Affairs, and the South African Journal of International Affairs. His recent publications include Self-Determination and Secession in Africa: The Postcolonial State (Routledge, 2016), National Liberation Movements as Government in Africa (Routledge, 2019), Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa (Routledge, 2020), State Legitimacy and Government Performance in the Horn of Africa ( African Studies , 2020), and Education as an Instrument of Nation-Building in Post-Colonial Africa ( Studies of Ethnicity and Nationalism , 2020). His research interests include political sociology, development sociology, African studies, state-building, nation-building, identity, nationalism, conflict, peacebuilding, and development.
Cyril Obi , PhD, is currently a program director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York. He leads the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs at the SSRC. In 2004, Dr Obi was awarded the Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR) at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. From 2005 to 2011, he was a senior researcher and led the research cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala. Dr Obi is currently a research associate of the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He was a visiting scholar to the Institute of African Studies (IAS), Columbia University; and an adjunct professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is well-published in the fields of Africas political economy, environmental politics, conflict, peace, and security. He recently received the 2020 Distinguished Scholar Award in recognition of his work by the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA).
