ABSTRACT
This handbook explores the challenges and opportunities for leadership and conflict response in the context of Africa at several levels.
Leadership plays a vital role in affecting conflict response but is frequently only examined at the macro level of state, government, and international organizations. This handbook addresses the need to explore challenges and opportunities for leadership at several levels: macro (global, regional, national), meso (NGOs, religious groups, academics), and micro (civil society organizations, youth groups, women’s organizations). Analysis from multiple levels provides a broader explanation of conflict dynamics and helps to fit localized conflict transformation approaches into wider national or regional structures. The multidisciplinary essays presented in this volume encompass the psychological, political, and structural dimensions of conflict response and demonstrate how its success is fundamentally linked to the style of effectiveness of leadership, among other factors.
The volume is divided into four thematic sections:
- Part I: The theory and dynamics of conflict response and leadership
- Part II: Macro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
- Part III: Meso-/micro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
- Part IV: Recommendations for improved leadership in conflict response
This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, African politics, security studies, and international relations, in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|73 pages
The theory and dynamics of conflict response and leadership
part II|149 pages
Macro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
chapter 6|14 pages
Conflict Response through Operations
chapter 7|15 pages
Leadership of the United Nations and African Union in Darfur, 2003–2006
chapter 9|14 pages
Role of Regional Organizations in Peace Interventions
part III|156 pages
Meso-/micro-level leadership experiences in conflict response
chapter 18|12 pages
Leading and Misleading the Flock
chapter 19|14 pages
Clan Elders and Traditional Reconciliation in Somalia
chapter 24|15 pages
Youth and Peacebuilding in West Africa
chapter 25|17 pages
Making a Difference in Peacekeeping Operations
chapter 26|12 pages
Leadership in Peacekeeping Training
chapter 28|14 pages
The Comparative Role of Political Leadership in Alleviating Conflict
part IV|6 pages
Recommendations for improved leadership in conflict response