ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONFLICT RESPONSE AND LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA
This handbook explores the challenges and opportunities for leadership and conflict response in the context of Africa at several levels.
Leadership plays a vital role in affecting conflict response but is frequently only examined at the macro level of state, government, and international organizations. This handbook addresses the need to explore challenges and opportunities for leadership at several levels: macro (global, regional, national), meso (NGOs, religious groups, academics), and micro (civil society organizations, youth groups, womens organizations). Analysis from multiple levels provides a broader explanation of conflict dynamics and helps to fit localized conflict transformation approaches into wider national or regional structures. The multidisciplinary essays presented in this volume encompass the psychological, political, and structural dimensions of conflict response and demonstrate how its success is fundamentally linked to the style of effectiveness of leadership, among other factors.
The volume is divided into four thematic sections:
- : The theory and dynamics of conflict response and leadership
- : Macro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
- : Meso-/micro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
- : Recommendations for improved leadership in conflict response
This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, African politics, security studies, and international relations, in general.
Alpaslan zerdem is Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, USA. He is co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics (2019), Comparing Peace Processes (2019), and Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development (2020).
Sinem Akgl-Akmee is Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair holder on Hybrid Threats in the EU at Kadir Has University (KHAS), Turkey. She is the co-editor of the book The European Union and the Black Sea: The State of Play (2015).
Ian Liebenberg is Professor in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies (DPAS) at the University of Namibia (UNAM) and Professor Extraordinary in Politics at the Faculty of Military Science (FMS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is the editor of A Far-Away War: Angola, 19751989 (first edition 2014, second edition 2019) and The Hidden Hand: Covert Operations in South Africa (first edition 1994, revised edition 1998).
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Names: zerdem, Alpaslan, editor. | Akgl Akmee, Sinem, editor. |
Liebenberg, Ian, editor.
Title: Routledge handbook of conflict response and leadership in Africa /
edited by Alpaslan zerdem, Sinem Akgl-Akmee, and Ian
Liebenberg.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,
2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021007123 (print) | LCCN 2021007124 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367332228 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032043197 (paperback) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Conflict managementAfrica. | LeadershipAfrica.
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ISBN: 978-1-032-04319-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-31860-3 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9780429318603
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CONTENTS
Ian Liebenberg, Alpaslan zerdem, and Sinem Akgl-Akmee
PART I
The theory and dynamics of conflict response and leadership
1 The evolution of conflict response: management, resolution, and transformation
Alpaslan zerdem
2 Leadership in conflict response: a conceptual exploration
Sezai zelik, Murat Yorulmaz, and Serdar Ylmaz
3 Decoding the emerging world order and challenges to global leadership
Tark Ouzlu
4 Leadership from a civil society perspective
Jessica Ayesha Northey
5 Leadership, conflict, and negotiating sustainable socio-political frameworks in Africa
Ian Liebenberg
PART II
Macro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
6 Conflict response through operations: understanding the leadership roles of the EU and NATO in Africa
idem stn and Sinem Akgl-Akmee
7 Leadership of the United Nations and African Union in Darfur, 20032006: how a simplified conflict narrative dominated the discourse around intervention
Kathryn Crewe Kelly
8 The role of IGAD in peacebuilding and conflict resolution: the case of South Sudan
Billy Agwanda, Uur Yasin Asal, Ahmad Shoaib Ghulam Nabi, and Israel Nyaburi Nyadera
9 Role of regional organizations in peace interventions: ECOWAS interventions in West Africa and macro-level leadership
Burak Toygar Halistoprak
10 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and conflict response in Madagascar
Mphatso Jones Boti Phiri
11 The role of the United States as a global power in responding to violent conflicts in Africa
Festus Kofi Aubyn
12 Russia in the new scramble for Africa: a new search for leadership?
nan Rma
13 The Peoples Republic of China in Africa
Haluk Karada
14 Turkeys peacebuilding response in Africa: the case of Somalia
Elem Eyrice Tepecikliolu
15 The political transformation of the North African states in the postArab Spring period
Lain dil zt
16 Maritime security off Africa: perspectives on East and West Africa
Francois Vre
PART III
Meso-/micro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
17 Community leadership and alternative approaches to Western conflict resolution models
Bezen Balamir Cokun
18 Leading and misleading the flock: understanding the ambivalent record of faith leaders in peacebuilding and conflict prevention
