Peacebuilding in Africa

Kelechi A. Kalu is professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.George Klay Kieh, Jr. is dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, professor of Political Science at Texas Southern University, and professor in the Graduate Program in International Relations at the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU), Liberia.

Professors Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh, Jr. have succeeded in editing, with distinction, the book titled Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises. Considering the publication to be very useful and timely, four equally distinguished scholarly endorsers in the fields ofpolitical science and history have described the 272-page book as being influential as well as remarkable, brilliant, and a cutting-edge anthology. Peacebuilding in Africa: The Post-Conflict State and Its Multidimensional Crises is a publication that should benefit college students at all levels as well as mainstream researchers, practitioners and the general reader, who wishes to enjoy the latest intellectual excursion into Africa’s many civil wars, their conclusions and the lessons expected to be learned.

• Introduction: Building Peace after Civil Conflicts in AfricaKelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh, Jr.Chapter 1: Building Peace after Conflicts: Theoretical IssuesKelechi A. KaluChapter 2: Burundi: Diplomacy, Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, 1993-2019Dawn NagarChapter 3: Peacebuilding in Democratic Republic of the Congo Tukumbi Lumumba-KasongoChapter 4: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Liberia George Klay Kieh, Jr.Chapter 5: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Rwanda: Successes, Challenges, and OpportunitiesEmeka IlohChapter 6: Liberal Peacebuilding in Sierra LeoneEmmanuel Vincent Nelson KallonChapter 7: The Challenges and Opportunities of Security Sector Reform in South Sudan Clayton Hazvinei VhumbunuChapter 8: Transitional Justice in Sudan Avitus AgborChapter 9: Conflict Resolution and Freedom in Africa Francis OnditiLessons and Insights: Toward Durable Peace in Africa’s Post-Conflict Societies Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay K