War and Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

159 Pages·2017·1.53 MB·English

by  Gilbert M. Khadiagala (eds.)

WAR AND PEACE
IN AFRICA’S
GREAT LAKES
REGION
Edited by
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
War and Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Editor
War and Peace in
Africa’s Great Lakes
Region
Editor
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Department of International Relations
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
ISBN 978-3-319-58123-1 ISBN 978-3-319-58124-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58124-8
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To mediators who have tirelessly sought to end wars in the Great Lakes
region
A
cknowledgements
This book grew from a conference organized by the Centre for Conflict
Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, from 19 to 20 March
2016 on “War and Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region.” As part of
CCR’s Peacebuilding and Region-Building project, the conference
brought together scholars and policymakers from across the globe to
develop concrete recommendations on how states in the region could
draw lessons from their own state building and post-conflict reconstruc-
tion experiences to craft effective solutions to overcome obstacles to
peace and security. Following the conference, CCR published and dis-
seminated a policy brief and report. I would like to thank all those who
contributed to the conference.
In working toward publishing this book, I have benefited from the
support of a number of individuals. First, I would like to thank Adekeye
Adebajo, former Executive Director of CCR, for his energetic commit-
ment to bringing the book to fruition. The current Executive Director,
Tony Karbo, has been equally invaluable in finalization of the book.
Kudrat Virk and Liliane Limenyande at CCR have also been criti-
cal in providing indispensable administrative support. Second, I wish
to acknowledge the seven authors who contributed to this book; they
have been patient and generous with their time as we have gone through
various drafts of their chapters. In the same vein, I wish to thank Jason
Cook for his stellar efforts in copyediting of this manuscript. Third, I
would like to thank the main funders of the March 2016 seminar and
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CCR’s Africa Programme—the governments of Norway, Sweden, the
Netherlands, and Finland. Finally, I would like to thank Anca Pusca,
Anne Schult, and their colleagues at Palgrave Macmillan for their sup-
port in the publication of this book.
March 2017 Gilbert M. Khadiagala
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ontents
1 Security and Governance in the Great Lakes Region:
An Introduction 1
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
2 Burundi: Between War and Negative Peace 17
Yolande Bouka
3 The Democratic Republic of the Congo: An Elusive Peace 33
Jason K. Stearns
4 Rwanda: Setting the Stage for 2017 and Beyond 49
Carina Tertsakian
5 Uganda in the Great Lakes Region: Obstacles
to Peace and Security 69
Paul Omach
6 The African Union’s Role in Maintaining Peace
and Security in the Great Lakes Region 85
Solomon Dersso
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7 The European Union and the Great Lakes Region:
Constraints and Inconsistencies 101
Marie V. Gibert
8 The United Nations in the Great Lakes Region 121
Emily Paddon Rhoads
9 Conclusions: Reversing the Spirals of Conflict
and Instability in the Great Lakes Region 137
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Index 145
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ditors And ontributors
About the editor
Gilbert M. Khadiagala is the Jan Smuts Professor of International
Relations and Head of the Department of International Relations at the
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has previously taught
comparative politics and international relations in Kenya, Canada, and
the USA. Khadiagala holds a doctorate in international studies from the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns
Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. His research focuses on govern-
ance, security, leadership, and conflict management in Eastern Africa,
Southern Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes region.
contributors
Yolande Bouka is a scholar-practitioner working on politics, dynam-
ics of war, and gender and security in sub-Saharan Africa. She cur-
rently holds a post-doctoral fellowship at the SiéChéou-Kang Center
for International Security and Diplomacy at the University of Denver.
She is also Co-Director of Studies of the annual RVI Great Lakes Field
Course. Between 2014 and 2016 she was a researcher at the Institute
for Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis
Division, focusing on the Great Lakes region. She holds a Ph.D. in
International Relations from the School of International Studies at
American University.
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