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Violence, political culture & development in Africa / Violence, political culture and development in Africa edited by Preben Kaarsholm. - Oxford, UK : Athens : Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : James Currey ; Ohio University Press ; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006. - xi, 208 p. ; 24 cm. - Global and comparative series ; no. 6 . - Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 6. .

Based on a workshop held May 21-25, 2002 in Allinge-Sandvig, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

States of failure, societies in collapse? : understandings of violent conflict in Africa / Preben Kaarsholm -- Insurgencies in the shadow of state collapse / William Reno -- A 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 -- The 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.

ISBN: 0852558945 (James Curry paper) 9780852558942 (James Curry paper) 9780896802513 (Ohio University Press : pbk. : $24.00) 0896802515 (Ohio University Press : pbk. : $24.00) 1869141164 (University of KwaZuluNatal Press paper) 9781869141165 (University of KwaZuluNatal Press paper)

LCCN: 2007275243

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political violence--Africa--Congresses.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--Politics and government--1960---Congresses.
Africa--Social conditions--1960---Congresses.

LC Class. No.: HN780.Z9 / V586 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 303.6096/09045