Illegal Peace in Africa
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Illegal Peace in Africa

An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta

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Illegal Peace in Africa

An Inquiry into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta

About this book

African states have become testing grounds for Western conflict-resolution experiments, particularly power-sharing agreements, supposedly intended to end deadly conflict, secure peace and build democracy in divided societies. This volume examines the legal and political efficacy of transitional political power-sharing between democratically constituted governments and the African warlords, rebels, or junta that seek to violently unseat them. What role does law indicate for itself to play in informing, shaping and regulating peace agreements? This book addresses this question and others through the prism of three West African case studies: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. It applies the neo-Kadeshean model of analysis and offers a framework for a 'Law on Power-sharing'. In a field dominated by political scientists, and drawing from ancient and contemporary international law, this book represents the first substantive legal critique of the law, practice and politics of power-sharing.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. ILLEGAL PEACE IN AFRICA
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. 1: INTRODUCTION
  9. 2: LEGALIZING PEACE
  10. 3: THE QUESTION OF POWER SHARING
  11. 4: THE CONFLICTS IN LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE, AND GUINEA-BISSAU
  12. 5: THE ACCRA, LOMÉ, AND ABUJA ACCORDS
  13. 6: THE DOMESTIC LEGALITY OF POWER SHARING
  14. 7: THE REGIONAL LEGALITY OF POWERSHARING
  15. 8: THE INTERNATIONAL LEGALITY OF POWER SHARING
  16. 9: POSTSCRIPT: LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE, AND GUINEA-BISSAU
  17. 10: NO LAW, NO PEACE
  18. 11: CONCLUSION
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX