Arbeitspapier

Major Flaws in Conflict Prevention Policies towards Africa. The Conceptual Deficits of International Actors' Approaches and How to Overcome Them

Current thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision). The paper analyses a variety of the dominant explanations of major international actors and donors, showing how these frequently do not distinguish with sufficient clarity between the 'root causes' of a conflict, its aggravating factors and its triggers. Specifically, a correct assessment of conflict prolonging (or sustaining) factors is of vital importance in Africa's lingering confrontations. Broader approaches (e.g. "structural stability") offer a better analytical framework than familiar one-dimensional explanations. Moreover, for explaining and dealing with violent conflicts a shift of attention from the nation-state towards the local and sub-regional level is needed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GIGA Working Papers ; No. 4

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
Sub-Saharan Africa
Conflict Prevention
Conflict Factors
Root causes
Conflict Prolonging Factors
Escalation Patterns
Peace Order
Structural Stability

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mehler, Andreas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mehler, Andreas
  • German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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