Warlord Democrats in Africa

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Afonso Dhlakama
Africa Now
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Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa
Alex Vines
Armed Conflict
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Carrie Manning
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Cedric De Coning
Charles Taylor
civil war
Congo
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corruption
DDR
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democratization
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Drug Lord
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Ellen Sirleaf Johnson
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Filip Reyntjens
good governance
Henning Melber
Henrik Vigh
Ibrahim Bangura
Johan Brosché
John Karlsrud
João Bernardo Vieira
Judith Verweijen
Kristine Höglund
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Lars Waldorf
liberal peace
Liberia
Linnéa Gelot
Mats Utas
Mbusa Nyamwisi
Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs
Mozambique
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Paul Higate
Paul Kagame
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Post-War Politics
post-war reconciliation
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Prince Johnson
Private Security in Africa
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Reintegration
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Riek Machar
RPF
Rwanda
Sekouh Conneh
Sierra Leone
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South Sudan
The Future of African Peace Operations
The Rise of Africa's Middle Class
Tobias Hagmann

Product details

  • ISBN 9781783602483
  • Weight: 374g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Apr 2017
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets. A byproduct of this process, however, is that military leaders often become an integral part of the new democratic system, using resources and networks generated from the previous war to dominate the emerging political landscape.

The crucial and thus-far overlooked question to be addressed, therefore, is what effect the inclusion of ex-militaries into electoral politics has on post-war security. Can 'warlord democrats' make a positive contribution by shepherding their wartime constituencies to support the building of peace and democracy, or are they likely to use their electoral platforms to sponsor political violence and keep war-affected communities mobilized through aggressive discourses?

This important volume, containing a wealth of fresh empirical detail and theoretical insight, and focussing on some of Africa's most high-profile political figures – from Paul Kagame to Riek Machar to Afonso Dhlakama – represents a crucial intervention in the literature of post-war democratization.

Anders Themnér is a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and an assistant professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. His research focus is on post-civil war democratization; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR); and informal military networks in post-civil war societies