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Adar, K.G. (2000) Conflict resolution in a turbulent region: the case of the inter-governmental authority on development (IGAD) in Sudan. African journal on conflict resolution. 1(2):39-66.
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Barolsky, V. & Naidu, S. (2010) More violence, less development: a preliminary assessment of armed violence and MDG achievement. (Commissioned by the UNDP, April).
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This report presents an exploratory statistical assessment of the relationships between armed violence and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It finds that poverty does not make a country more or less dangerous. Nevertheless, it finds that countries registering lower levels of human development and higher levels of income inequality experience proportionately higher levels of homicidal vi...
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Daniel, J. & Ramdeen, M. (2006) Dealing with Africa's post-independence past: truth commissions, special courts, war-crimes trials and other methods. In South Africa's role in conflict resolution and peacemaking in Africa. Southall, R. (ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 191-217.
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Hagg, G. (2008) Identity and violent conflict in Africa. HSRC Review. 6(1):14-15.
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The unexpected postelection violence in Kenya has again highlighted the need for a clearer understanding of the relationship between identity and violent conflict in Africa. In a study of nine African countries the interdependence of identity, political power struggles and rivalry for access to resources was found to be an important factor in such conflicts. GERARD HAGG reports on the findings ...
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Hagg, G. & Kagwanja, P. (2007) Identity and peace: reconfiguring conflict resolution in Africa. African Journal on Conflict Resolution. 7(2):9-35.
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The emergence of intra-state wars based on identity requires a reconfiguring of existing conflict resolution mechanisms. The article recognises the limitations of liberal peace models originally configured to deal with inter-state conflicts, but increasingly applied to inter-ethnic conflicts with limited success and often disastrous effects. The article argues for the reconceptualisation of ide...
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Hagg, G. (2006) Cultural diversity in conflict and peace making in Africa: enhancing mediators and facilitators' contribution to conflict resolution, peace-making and peace-building in Africa. (Commissioned by the Department of Arts and Culture, August).
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The relationship between cultural diversity, conflict and peace is complex and dynamic. This is evident from the reality that some conflicts in the world are between groups that are culturally quite similar, while many different groups and countries have developed ways to cooperate peacefully. Although international interventions have resolved conflict in some countries, similar interventions h...
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Kagwanja, P. & Kondlo, K. (2008) Saving Zimbabwe: an agenda for democratic peace. (Policy report for the Africa Policy Institute, July).
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Zimbabwe teeters on the precipice in the aftermath of the 2008 elections, which saw the incumbent, President Robert Mugabe, return to power for another five-year term in an electoral process judged by all African observers as not free and fair. Far from resolving Zimbabwe's eight-year political and economic crisis as earlier anticipated, the election, earlier conceived as a conflict resolution ...
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Kagwanja, P. (2008) Up in arms. BBC Focus on Africa. June/July:24-25.
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There is a crucial ingredient that needs to be thrown into the wave of protests sweeping the continent if Africa is to put protracted armed rebellion behind it.
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Kagwanja, P. (2007) Africa-West stand-off: Zim recovery roadmap under threat. HSRC Review. 5(3):10-11.
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President Thabo Mbeki has a new regional mandate to broker a negotiated settlement to end the debilitating political and economic crisis that is rapidly driving Zimbabwe over the cliff. But the mediation effort runs the risk of failing unless a protracted face-off between Africa and the Western world over South Africa's northern neigbour is resolved.
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Kagwanja, P. (2007) Calming the waters: the East African community and conflict over the Nile resources. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 1(3):321-337.
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Control of the waters of the Nile Basin has been long contested among the ten African riparian states that sit within the wider catchment area. In colonial times, use of the Nile was regulated by treaties promulgated and supported under British rule. These agreements favoured Egyptian and, to a lesser extent, Sudanese primacy in controlling the great river. This situation began to be challen...
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Kagwanja, P. SADC mediation must be allowed to breathe. Mail & Guardian. (26 August 2007)
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Kagwanja, P. & Wepundi, M. Uganda peace process needs a regional stamp. The East African. (3 September 2007)
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Kagwanja, P. & Wepundi, M. Uganda: how Kampala kept conflict off global agenda. The East African. (27 August 2007)
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Modisha, G. (2007) A contradictory class location?: the African corporate middle class and the burden of race in South Africa. In: Southall, R. (ed). Conflict and governance in South Africa: moving towards a more just and peaceful society. Lyttelton: Conflict and Governance Facility. 202-225.
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The author shows that a new middle class social status and power in the workplace is complicated by popular notions of how class and race intersect, both among fellow managers and how they are viewed by the primarily black workforces. Second, the author shows that the class position of the emerging African corporate middle class is closely linked to the communities that they come from and is in...
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Muzondidya, J. (2009) Flawed Zimbabwe deal as good as it gets. HSRC Review. 7(1):25-26.
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The recent SADC-initiated political deal between Zanu-PF and the two MDC parties, which paved the way for forming an inclusive government in Zimbabwe, has enticed mixed reactions inside and outside the country. The author explores the deal and explains why the umbilical cord between Zimbabwe and southern Africa will remain intact.
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Muzondidya, J. Negotiation only solution to the Zimbabwe crisis. The Zimbabwe Independent. Online. (19 June 2008)
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Muzondidya, J. (2008) Promoting African solutions to African crises: prospects for Zimbabawe's peace and reconstruction: the ambiguities of diaspora politics: the Zimbabwe diaspora and the Zimbabwe crisis. (Paper presented at the Africa Institute of South Africa & TELA Forum of Mozambique Regional Conference, Maputo, Mozambique, 22-24 September).
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Muzondidya, J. Zimbabweans abroad, critical to recovery. The Zimbabwe Independent. (18 September 2008)
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Muzondidya, J. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. (2007) 'Echoing silences': ethnicity in post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1980-2007. African Journal on Conflict Resolution. 7(2):275-297.
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In spite of its rare entry into both official and public discourses about contemporary Zimbabwe, ethnicity, alongside race, has continued to shape and influence the economic, social, and political life of Zimbabwe since the achievement of independence in 1980. In this article we argue that whilst post-independence Zimbabwe has since the days of the Gukurahundi war (1982-1986) not experienced se...
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Naidoo, V. (2008) Assessing racial redress in the public service. In: Habib, A. & Bentley, K. (eds). Racial redress & citizenship in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 99-128.
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This chapter reviews measures specifically created to promote and achieve racial redress in the South African public service, and to take stock of the outcomes.
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Naidu, S. (2006) The South African arms industry: redefining the boundaries. In South Africa's role in conflict resolution and peacemaking in Africa. Southall, R. (ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 253-265.
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Ndletyana, M. (2007) Political management of ethnic perceptions: an assessment of the African National Congress. African Journal on Conflict Resolution. 7(2):135-160.
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This paper argues that the ANC has historically followed a moderate route - embracing tradition, whilst denouncing tribalism. Yet, this
did not insulate the party from accusations of ethnic bias - a perception the leadership largely left unattended. But, entry into the arena of competitive politics has imposed a slight modification on the part of the party towards pandering to ethnic sentiment...
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Southall, R. (2006) Introduction: South Africa, an African peacemaker?. In South Africa's role in conflict resolution and peacemaking in Africa. Southall, R.J. (ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 1-26.
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Southall, R. (2006) A long prelude to peace: South African involvement in ending Burundi's war. In South Africa's role in conflict resolution and peacemaking in Africa. Southall, R. (ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 105-133.
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Southall, R. (ed). (2006) South Africa's role in conflict resolution and peacemaking in Africa: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Since its transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa has become increasingly drawn into the resolution of conflicts and the promotion of peace and stability on the wider African continent. This has followed from the high reputation of its own negotiated settlement as a model for other conflict torn countries to emulate, the iconic status of Nelson Mandela as a master of reconciliation and fo...
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Sriram, C.L. & Pillay, S. (eds). (2009) Peace versus justice?: the dilemma of transitional justice in Africa. Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
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This book offers fresh insights on the so-called 'justice versus peace' dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects for promoting both peace and accountability, specifically in African countries affected by conflict or political violence. Peace versus Justice? draws on the expertise of many insider analysts, individuals who are not only authorities on transitional accountability processes, ...
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Tilley, V. (2010) A Palestinian declaration of independence: implications for peace. Middle East Policy. XVII(1):52-67.
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In an Israeli-Palestinian peace process most commonly described as moribund, the Palestinian Authority (PA) recently raised a diplomatic ripple by publicly proposing to make a unilateral declaration of independence for a State of Palestine within the 1967
Armistice borders of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem). In challenging the diplomatic stalemate,
the proposal str...
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Tilley, V. Inside 1701: what the UN security council's ceasefire resolution actually says. Counterpunch. (19-20 August 2006)
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Tilley, V. (2006) Israel in Lebanon: the foreign policy logics of Jewish Statehood. The MIT electronic journal of Middle East studies. 6:152-162.
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Tilley, V. Putting words in Ahmadinejad's mouth. Counterpunch. (14 November 2006)
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