{"title":"The Fracturing of Pro-Biafra Nationalist Movements","authors":"S. Oyewole","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The failure of the state to transcend ethnic politics and guarantee justice and equality among its citizens with multiethnic nationalities has encouraged a series of anti-state resistances in Nigeria. Accordingly, Biafra separatism emerged in Nigeria with a civil war between 1967 and 1970 and remerged with the democratization process in 1999. Most studies on pro-Biafra agitation focus on causes rooted in state-society relations and present the struggle as a unified front, idea, process, people, formation, and organization, without giving attention to the cracks and factions within it. Beyond external pressure, the dichotomy between right wing (moderates) and left wing (radical) members of the movement stood out as the basis for the fracturing. This study seeks to examine how pro-Biafra agitation has risen and declined over time, amid continuous fracturing of resistant movements and the challenging task of maintaining organizational coherence, as evidenced by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79927859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piracy and Crime Embeddedness: State Decay and Social Transformation in Somalia","authors":"Keun-young Jeong","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This study is an investigation of the deeper context of Somali piracy as a peculiar regional phenomenon. It demonstrates a causal mechanism of Somali piracy that is optimized for a holistic understanding of complex contextual conditions. The comprehensive analysis reveals that Somali piracy has evolved along with the complex dynamics of multiple factors in various dimensions. Among the various factors, the embeddedness of crime in local governance crises is a core mechanism that has facilitated the rapid evolution of Somali piracy since 2005. The results call for a new understanding of Somali piracy as it resembles the embeddedness of crime in early modern European state formation (Thomson 1996). The article argues that Somali piracy is essentially an ill manifestation of the complicated dynamics of state decay and social transformation in Somalia.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76407618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postwar Governance: Human Rights and Peacebuilding in Côte d'Ivoire","authors":"A. Babo","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:After a ten-year divisive political crisis (2002–11) that ended in deadly civil war in 2011, the newly established government of Côte d'Ivoire has been implementing a reconstruction program to rebuild a peaceful postwar democratic society. This paper critically analyzes the Ivorian case to show that the postwar process to create democratic institutions and sustainable peace has not overcome the ethnic-based ideology that grasped the whole society. The state has made remarkable economic and social progress to rise up from its recent tragic past by bringing back peace and order. However, although cloaked in reports of success, postwar Côte d'Ivoire is mired in failures of disarmament and reconciliation, ongoing violations of human rights, retaliation, and divisive ethnic-based governance.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72955072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding: The ICC and TJRC processes in Kenya","authors":"M. Wambua","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Transitional justice is a critical component in peacebuilding in post-conflict regimes. States recovering from periods of protracted structural or manifest conflict institute restorative and retributive transitional justice mechanisms with the aim of pursuing justice for victims and perpetrators. There is, however, a phenomenon that has been observed in the international system whereby post-conflict regimes that have initiated transitional justice interventions in pursuit of a sustainable peace experience relapse into violence. This paper examines the outcome and impact of transitional justice interventions in peacebuilding in post-conflict regimes using the case of Kenya. The study integrates a descriptive and explanatory multiple case study of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and the International Criminal Court processes to examine the intersection of transitional justice and peacebuilding in the country. The paper demonstrates that these transitional justice processes suffered legislative enactment and enforcement inadequacies as well as limitations of state interference and local ownership that hindered their effectiveness. Due to noncooperation and non-compliance in their implementation, these transitional justice mechanisms failed to respond to the protracted latent and manifest antagonisms between perpetrators and victims, thereby constraining the peacebuilding agenda in the country.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77367917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stability Through Multilateral Cooperation: China and Regional Security in Africa","authors":"G. Lammich","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.9.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article addresses the increasing cooperation between China and regional organizations in Africa and analyzes the impact this cooperation has on the continent's security landscape with special regard to the role of the African Union (AU). China increasingly engages with the AU in various security-related issues and new cooperation mechanisms have been established. However, China's involvement in African security is not based on any long-term strategy, but rather reflects the changing interests of various Chinese actors engaging in Africa. For the AU, China's increasing involvement represents an opportunity to extend its influence in the region and establish itself as an envoy for Africa's external relations.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78003295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Local Law Impedes Conflict Resolution: Women's Oil Protests in the Niger Delta","authors":"Laine Munir","doi":"10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.10.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.10.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region hosts a long-standing conflict among residents, the government, and foreign oil companies operating in rural areas. Both peaceful and armed cadres of men have led mobilizations against extractive operations but then all-female demonstrations arose relatively suddenly, seemingly separate from men, starting in 2002. Based on qualitative field data, this ethnographic case study explores how women's perceptions of law informed their decision to protest in response to their oil-related grievances from 2002 to 2012. It asks why women avoided the use of formal state law, remaining embedded in localized traditional law for formal, rights-based legal matters. The main findings are that women see written law from the state as inherently good but corrupting individuals as the reason it cannot be galvanized for conflict resolution. They also perceive a binary between local and state law, with indigenous leaders acting as gatekeepers controlling access between the two legal planes. This study suggests that traditional law may impede women's ability to resolve their oil-related problems in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81583816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Libyan Revolution and Women’s Participation in Politics and Media","authors":"Haala Hweio","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.8.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.8.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The recent political and social waves of change that have marked Libyan society since 2011, and the active engagement of Libyan women in it, provide a reason to study cultural changes that have a direct impact on Libyan society’s perception of social and political rights, in general, and gender roles, in particular. The role played by women in the Libyan revolution connected the event to women in the collective mind of Libyan society. Therefore, the success of the revolutionary action against Muammar Gaddafi helped empower the new political and social status of women in society. However, the chaos and disorder that followed the end of the revolution took away from women’s gains. The failure of the post-revolution era in Libya pulled away a lot of the confidence gained by women during the revolution regarding their chances to become full partners in the political process. This article examines women’s participation in the public sphere and most notably the way social and cultural factors affect their participation in politics and media.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85655007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tapping into Resettlement for Rebuilding: Lessons from Peacebuilding Engagement Activities of Resettled Liberian Refugees in Canada","authors":"Amanda Coffie","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.8.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.8.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Researchers have uncovered various ways that refugees in neighboring countries and refugee returnees can change the peacebuilding landscape of their countries. These studies show that refugees demonstrate capacities to contribute to peacebuilding in diverse ways, including enhancement of safety and security, political processes, and revitalization of economic, justice, and reconciliation systems. The above findings notwithstanding, we know little about the peacebuilding role of millions of resettled refugees. This article, therefore, highlights Canada’s resettlement of Liberian refugees, integration experiences, and some peacebuilding engagement activities of resettled refugees as well as factors that contribute to their (dis)engagement. The evidence from the data indicates that resettled refugees are a resource for peacebuilding waiting to be tapped and whose engagement reinforces the complementarity of state-led and community-based approaches to peacebuilding.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76702097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Migratory Mess or a Demographic Peace? Voluntary and Involuntary Population Flows and Conflict Intensity in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"C. Taber","doi":"10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.8.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/AFRICONFPEACREVI.8.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:While the study of migration and conflict among international relations scholars has become increasingly widespread, there have been few systematic, cross-national examinations of this relationship, and scant attention has been paid to these phenomena in the Global South and Africa in particular. There appears to be no clear consensus on the nature of the transnational migration-interstate conflict nexus, despite promising theoretical and case study–based contributions. Although the bulk of the existing literature suggests a positive correlation between migration and conflict, there are certainly dissenting opinions worth addressing. This article draws from literature on the political implications of refugees, voluntary South-South migration, and South-North migration to systematically test the hypotheses that voluntary and involuntary migration may either mitigate or exacerbate militarized disputes between sending and receiving states in sub-Saharan Africa.","PeriodicalId":7615,"journal":{"name":"African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81434323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}