Peace and Conflit in Africa

Abstract

The book is organized into eleven chapters in two main parts dealing with concepts and theoretical debates and issues in peace and conflict in Africa. Different writers have contributed to the book. David Francis sets in Chapter One, which is the introduction of the book, the con-text for understanding peace and conflict in Africa. The critical focus of the contextual outline is to demonstrate that peace and conflict do not exist or operate in a vacuum or isolation, but essentially interact with and are influenced by specific historical and sociocultural forces, the nature of domestic politics and its international dimension.