Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change - Softcover

The prevailing narrative on Africa is that it is awash with violent conflict. Indeed, it does suffer from a multitude of conflicts--from border skirmishes to civil wars to terrorist attacks. Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases of successful conflict management and resolution. What accounts for the successes and failures, and what can we learn from Africa's experience? Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change takes on these questions, bringing together more than 20 experts to examine the source of conflicts in Africa and assess African management capacity in the face of these conflicts.

Pamela Aall is a senior fellow with CIGI's Global Security & Politics Program, leading the African Regional Conflict Management project. She is also a senior adviser for conflict prevention and management at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where she was founding provost of the USIP's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. She is on the advisory council of the European Institute of Peace, and serves on the board of Women in International Security and the International Peace and Security Institute. Chester A. Crocker is a distinguished fellow at CIGI. He is the James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, and serves on the board of its Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. A former assistant secretary of state for African affairs (1981-1989), he served as chairman of the board of the USIP (1992-2004) and is a founding member of the Global Leadership Foundation. With Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, he has edited and authored a number of books on conflict management and mediation.