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Despotism and Democracy in Africa
Betrayal and Revival of the National Project
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja examines the attempts made since the late 1980s to revive the national project of democracy and development in Africa by dismantling despotism and consolidating democratic governance.

AFRICOM: Imperialism and attempts to re-militarise Africa
Horace Campbell
Exploring the global context behind AFRICOM's development, Horace Campbell examines the history of US militarism in Africa and efforts to re-militarise the African continent under the influence and will of Washington.

Experiments with Peace: a Book Celebrating Peace at Johan Galtung's 80th Anniversary
Guadalupe Abrego, Narayan Desai, Synøve Faldalen, Richard A. Falk, Dieter Fischer, Bernd Hamm, Alexander Harang, Fredrik Heffermehl, Sara Horowitz, Sohail Inayatullah, Takayo Inoue, Takehiko Ito, Jørgen Johansen, John Y. Jones, George Kent, Tomoe Kodaira, Ninan Koshy, David Krieger, Poka Laenui, Jonathan D. London, Ramon Lopez-Reyes, Jake Lynch, Brian Martin, Erin McCandless, Henning Melber, Ivana Milojević, Jan Öberg, Rune Ottosen, Glenn D. Paige, Bishnu Pathak, Vithal Rajan, Andrew Rigby, Sigmund Kvaløy Sætreng, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Christine Schweitzer, Paul D. Scott, Desmond Tutu, S. P. Udayakumar, Peter Wallensteen
Impatient, provocative and prolific in his pursuit of peace through research, publishing and commentary, Johan Galtung reaches 80 on 24 October 2010, without the slightest sign of slowing down.

Reforming Contemporary African States
The Politics of History, Conflict and Reconciliation in Kenya
Drawing on contributions from scholars at Moi University in Eldoret and the Oxford Transitional Justice Research group at the University of Oxford, Reforming Contemporary African States provides leading analysis on the crisis in Kenya.

Understanding the Somalia Conflagration
Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding
Afyare Abdi Elmi
Devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, Somalia has long been without a central government. Against this background of violence and instability, Somali-born Afyare Abdi Elmi attempts to find a peace-building consensus.

To Cook a Continent
Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa
Nnimmo Bassey
Given his many years of experience as executive director of Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Nnimmo Bassey is well placed to suggest how Africa can overcome the crises of its environment and global warming.

The Burden of Peace
Women Speak in the Aftermath of Kenya's Post-Election Crisis
Peace has returned to Kenya after the violence that erupted in the wake of the disputed elections in 2007. Yet for many of the country's women – killed or widowed, maimed and gang-raped, displaced and dispossessed – this is not their peace.

Role of the media in the Rwandan genocide
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda provides a telling case study of two quite separate roles for media in a conflict situation. Among the most appalling catastrophes of the 20th century, the media played a significant part in the course of events.

Gender, violence and conflict
Gender, Violence and Conflict has been produced for the Africa Programme of the University for Peace by Fahamu, with the aim of providing resources on these themes along with special reference to masculinities and war.

Conflict prevention
Conflict – and especially violent conflict – is common in many parts of the world. Violent conflict not only hinders human development and security, it also reverses many of the gains that society may have achieved over many years.