Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa

Contributors

337 Contributors CHriStoPHer ClAPHAm is an associate of the Centre of African Studies at the university of Cambridge and editor of the Journal of Modern African Studies. His books include Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival (1996) and African Guerillas (1998). devon CurtiS is a lecturer in the department of Politics and international Studies at the university of Cambridge, and a fellow of emmanuel College. Her main research interests and publications deal with power-sharing and governance arrangements following conflict, African rebel movements, and critical perspectives on conflict, peace, and development. She is currently writing a book about peacebuilding in burundi. gWinyAyi A. dZineSA was a senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict resolution in Cape town, South Africa. Previously, he was a lecturer in the department of international relations at the university of the Witwatersrand, a visiting scholar at the international Peace research institute, oslo, and a research and publications officer at the Centre for defence Studies at the university of Zimbabwe. He has coedited Region-Building in Southern Africa: Progress, Problems and Prospects (2012), and has published widely on peace, security, and development issues in Africa. Comfort ero is the Africa program director at the international Crisis group.Prior to iCg,she was deputy director of the Africa program at the international Center fortransitional Justice and the political affairs officer and policy adviser to the special representative of the secretarygeneral at the united nations mission in liberia. She holds a Phd in international relations from the london School of economics. grAHAm HArriSon is a professor of politics at the university of Sheffield, and an editor of Review of African Political Economy and New Political Economy. He has published four books on aspects of African politics, including Neoliberal Africa: The Impact of Global Social Engineering (2010) and The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States (2004). 338 Contributors eboe HutCHful is a professor of Africana studies at Wayne State university, michigan, and chair of the African Security Sector network ,a network spanning African think tanks,civil society organizations, security practitioners, and parliamentarians active in security sector governance and transformation. He also heads African Security dialogue and research, a nongovernmental organization based in Accra, ghana. He is the author of Ghana’s Adjustment Experience: The Paradox of Reform (2002); coauthor of Military and Militarism in Africa (1998); and coeditor of Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: The Processes and Mechanisms of Control (2006). ekA ikPe is a research associate with the Conflict Security and development group, king’s College london, university of london. She holds a Phd in economics from the School of oriental and African Studies, university of london. She has researched and published on a range of issues in the fields of development economics and security and development. most recently she is coeditor of Women, Peace and Security: Translating Policy into Practice (2011). dAvid keen is a professor of conflict studies at the london School of economics. His recent books include The Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwest Sudan 1983–9 (2008), Complex Emergencies (2007), Endless War? Hidden Functions of the “War on Terror” (2006), and Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (2005). gilbert m. kHAdiAgAlA is the Jan Smuts Professor of international relations and head of the department at the university of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of Meddlers or Mediators? African Interveners in Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa (2007), coauthor of Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace (2007), editor of Security Dynamics in Africa’s Great Lakes Region (2006), and coeditor of Conflict Management and African Politics: Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation (2008). CHriS lAndSberg is a professor of politics and head of the department at the university of Johannesburg. He is the author of The Diplomacy of Transformation: South Africa Foreign Policy and Statecraft (2010) and The Quiet Diplomacy of Liberation: International Politics and South Africa’s Transition (2004); he is coeditor of South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era (2007), Government and Politics in the New South Africa (2006), and From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Challenges (2003). 339 Contributors rené lemArCHAnd is a professor emeritus of political science at the university of florida. He has written extensively on the great lakes region, including The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (2009). His latest book is an edited volume, Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial...