The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable p

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The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa

Tony Karbo  •  Kudrat Virk Editors

The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa

Editors Tony Karbo N’Zarama Centre for Peacebuilding Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Kudrat Virk Centre for Conflict Resolution Cape Town, South Africa

ISBN 978-3-319-62201-9    ISBN 978-3-319-62202-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62202-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017959586 © Centre for Conflict Resolution 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images Cover design by Samantha Johnson Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

This book is dedicated to the memory of Ali A. Mazrui (1933–2014), Founding Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York; Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016), former United Nations Secretary-General; and Margaret Vogt (1950–2014), former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Central African Republic, all three trailblazers and courageous champions of the quest for a Pax Africana.

Foreword: Three Prophets of Pax Africana

This book is one of the first comprehensive assessments of Africa’s security architecture over the last three post-Cold War decades, authored primarily by eminent African scholars and practitioners, joined by equally eminent colleagues from beyond the continent. It is thus fitting that the volume honours three Prophets of Pax Africana: Kenya’s Ali Mazrui, Egypt’s Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Nigeria’s Margaret Vogt, who joined the ranks of the ancestors in the Hereafter that Mazrui had described as “after Africa”, in 2014 (