This volume brings together a collection of papers review the wide-ranging issues arising out of post-conflict economies in Africa. What factors contribute towards an increasing risk of conflict? What actions can be taken to promote transformation from conflict to post-conflict state? How can that state be maintained in terms of avoiding the resurgence of conflict? Case studies, drawing on experiences from all parts of Africa, illuminate and complement the thematic overview. Extensive analysis illustrates the policies and strategies available for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of post-conflict African economies to establish sustainable political, social and financial institutions which promote stability, growth and equity and reduce the risks of conflict recurring.

PART I: THEMATIC ISSUES
Post-conflict Reconstruction in Africa: Some Analytical Issues; T.Addison & S.M.Murshed
The Economic and Political Consequence of Conflict and Implications for Post-Conflict Recovery in Africa; I.A.Elbadawi & N.S.Ndung'u
Economic Policy in Post-Conflict Societies; P.Collier
Ethnicity, Institutions of Governance and Conflict Avoidance; M.S.Kimenyi
PART II: CASE STUDIES: WEST AFRICA
Liberia and Sierra Leone: Interwoven Civil Wars; V.A.B.Davies
The Nigeria Civil War: Causes and the Aftermath; A-G.Garba & P.K.Garba
The Economics of Civil Conflict in Africa - The Case of Chad; N.Djimtoingar & D.A.Avocksouma
PART III: CASE STUDIES: THE HORN, EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA
Conflict, Post-Conflict and Economic Performance in Ethiopia; A.Geda & B.Degefe
Prospects for Sustainable Peace and Post-Conflict Economic Growth in the Sudan; A.A.Gadir Ali & I.A.Elbadawi
Entrenching Peace in Post-Conflict Economies: The Case of Uganda; M.Atingi-Ego & R.Kaggwa Sebudde
The Challenge of Transition from War to Peace in Burundi; J.D.Nkurunziza & F.Ngaruko
PART IV: CASE STUDIES: SOUTHERN AFRICA
The Political Economy of Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Making Peace Substantial in Mozambique; L.Francisco & E.Connerley
Transformation for Post-conflict Angola; F.M.Roque
PART V: CONCLUSION
Synthesis and Lessons; A.K.Fosu

PAUL COLLIER is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economics at Oxford University. He is also Professor Associate at CERDI, Université d'Auvergne and Fellow of the CEPR, London. He is the author of numerous books and papers and has written on: macroeconomics, focusing on external shocks, exchange rate and trade policies; on microeconomics, focusing on labour and financial markets; and on rural development, on which he has written three books.

AUGUSTIN KWASI FOSU is currently the the Senior Policy Advisor/Chief Economist of the Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and erstwhile Director of Research of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya, and RDRC Research Fellow, University of California-Berkeley, USA. He has published extensively on economic growth and development as well as on labour economics. He is co-editor of the Journal of African Economies (Oxford).