Preben Kaarsholm is Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark

...I gained an insight into the role of the media and communication in Africa in times of conflict and increased my understanding of conflict and its impact on all levels of African society. -

• Introduction: states of failure or societies in collapse? Dynamics of violent conflict in Africa by Preben Kaarsholm - Insurgencies in the shadow of state collapse by William Reno - Conflict and militia formation in eastern Congo: a societal view on violence and war by Koen Vlassenroot - Debating the Rwanda genocide: strengthening the U.N. Genocide convention by Nigel Eltringham - Darfur, peace, genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan by Douglas H. Johnson - Legacies of violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe by Jocelyn Alexander - The past as contested terrain: commemorating new sites of memory in wartorn Ethiopia by Alessandro Triulzi - Violence as signifier: politics and generational struggle in KwaZulu-Natal by Preben Kaarsholm - War, violence and videotapes: the use of media in the Liberian civil war by Mats Utas - Beyond violence: the anthropology of new wars in Africa by Paul Richards.

Preben Kaarsholm is Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark

...I gained an insight into the role of the media and communication in Africa in times of conflict and increased my understanding of conflict and its impact on all levels of African society. -

• Introduction: states of failure or societies in collapse? Dynamics of violent conflict in Africa by Preben Kaarsholm - Insurgencies in the shadow of state collapse by William Reno - Conflict and militia formation in eastern Congo: a societal view on violence and war by Koen Vlassenroot - Debating the Rwanda genocide: strengthening the U.N. Genocide convention by Nigel Eltringham - Darfur, peace, genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan by Douglas H. Johnson - Legacies of violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe by Jocelyn Alexander - The past as contested terrain: commemorating new sites of memory in wartorn Ethiopia by Alessandro Triulzi - Violence as signifier: politics and generational struggle in KwaZulu-Natal by Preben Kaarsholm - War, violence and videotapes: the use of media in the Liberian civil war by Mats Utas - Beyond violence: the anthropology of new wars in Africa by Paul Richards.