Volume 44. Issue 1: Piecing it Together: Post-Conflict Security in an Africa of Networked, Multilevel Governance
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Notes on Contributors
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Social Contracts, Networks and Security in Tropical Africa Conflict States: An Overview
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)In this IDS Bulletin we present fieldwork from articles covering the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Somalia to show that assumptions derived from the classical social contract ... -
Preface
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)How do, could and should the various institutions responsible for the production of security and the management of conflict in Tropical African societies evolve in response to the presence of violent conflict? The research ... -
Insecurity and Local Governance in Congo's South Kivu
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has experienced recurrent wars for more than 15 years. This article, based on the original report, 1 explores the way local systems of governance and ... -
A Village-Up View of Sierra Leone's Civil War and Reconstruction
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)This article, based on the original report, 1 offers a ‘bottom?up’ review of the post?war reconstruction of the Sierra Leone state. The impact of the civil war on human security and governance in the rural areas was ... -
Reconstructing Political Order Among the Somalis: The Historical Record in the South and Centre
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)The reconstruction of a larger polity in a violence?torn society such as Somalia requires negotiation of a new social contract between the superordinate body and the local units of governance that have provided citizens ... -
Coordinating Development in Conflict States: Donor Networks in Somalia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)Aid coordination is part of the governance of public policy, affecting the accountability and effectiveness of aid as well as power relationships. Using the case of Somalia, this article analyses the coordination of aid ... -
Democracy, Liberty and Montesquieu: Constructing Accountable Order in African Conflict States
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)Without appropriate institutional checks multiparty democracy can rekindle violent conflicts rather than help to resolve them. The absolutism of ‘imperial presidents’ is at the root of many of Africa's civil wars and the ... -
The Dynamics of Restraint in Côte d'Ivoire
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)Research on conflict prevention has mainly focused on the causes of war and post?conflict reconstruction. Our knowledge on how civilians manage to contain violence in unstable and conflict environments is, however, very ... -
The IDS Global Uncertainties Project on Security in an Africa of Networked, Multilevel Governance
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, January 20)