What causes local conflict in Africa and the rest of the Third World? What role, if any, can the U.S. play in helping to resolve these conflicts, and when is the ripe moment for a response by an external power? This new study, written by the internationally renowned Africanist I. William Zartman and undertaken as part of the Africa Project of the Council on Foreign Relations, examines the causes and nature of African conflict and addresses the issue of how foreign powers can productively contribute to the management and resolution of such conflicts without resorting to the use of military force. The book focuses on four case studies of local conflict and external response-in the Western Sahara, the Horn of Africa, the Shaba province in Zaire, and Namibia-to assess various approaches to conflict management, and offers guidelines for identifying the critical moment for effective external response. Zartman also evaluates U.S. policy toward Third World conflict and spells out a policy toward Africa and the Third World in general that is based on preemptive treatment rather than military intervention.

Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa

I. William Zartman

Oxford University Press

The Foreign Policies Of Arab States

History

Bahgat Korany

Ali E. Hillal Dessouki

Ahmad Yousef Ahmad

Raymond A. Hinnebusch

A.G. Kluge

Paul C. Noble

Mohamed E. Selim

Middle East

Westview Press

This text identifies contributions of traditional mechanisms for conflict management in Africa and elsewhere. With African conflicts eluding efforts to be controlled, this work is guided by the question: can traditional methods yield insights and approaches that might help end the violence?

Traditional Cures for Modern Conflicts: African Conflict "Medicine" (Sais African Studies Library (Boulder, Colo.).)

Parenting & Relationships

Lynne Rienner Pub

This toolkit lays out five steps mediators can take to determine when a conflict is ripe for mediation.

Timing Mediation Initiatives (Peacemaker's Toolkit)

Business & Money

Alvaro de Soto

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

United States Institute of Peace

Engaging Extremists concerns negotiation with political terrorist organizations, separating terrorist groups that can be engaged from those that, for the moment, cannot.

Engaging Extremists: Trade-Offs, Timing, and Diplomacy

Politics & Social Sciences

Guy Olivier Faure

Politics & Government

United States Institute of Peace Press

Peacemaking And International Conflict: Methods & Techniques

This updated and expanded edition of the highly popular volume originally published in 1997 describes the tools and skills of peacemaking that are currently available and critically assesses their usefulness and limitations.

Peacemaking In International Conflict: Methods And Techniques

United States Inst of Peace Press

Imbalance of Power: Us Hegemony and International Order

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