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Ethnicity Kills?

The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Politics of War: a Meditation

      • V. Y. Mudimbe
      Pages 23-34
  3. Transitions from War to Peace?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. Conclusion: Transcending the Discourse on the Politics of War

      • Einar Braathen, Morten Bøås, Gjermund Sæther
      Pages 188-205
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 206-223

About this book

The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle which evolved around the state is at the forefront of the analysis of civil war and societal conflict.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Bergen, Norway

    Einar Braathen

  • Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway

    Morten Bøås

  • Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna, Austria

    Gjermund Sæther

About the editors

EINAR BRAATHEN works for the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR). He was Research Fellow (Research Council of Norway) at the University of Bergen..

MORTEN BOÅS is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.

GJERMUND SAETHER is a political scientist and former University Lecturer at the Eurofaculty, University of Tartu. He joined the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic trainee and is currently posted in Vienna.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethnicity Kills?

  • Book Subtitle: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Editors: Einar Braathen, Morten Bøås, Gjermund Sæther

  • Series Title: International Political Economy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977354

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-77381-9Published: 11 February 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41616-5Published: 01 January 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-97735-4Published: 11 February 2000

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2483

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 223

  • Topics: African Politics, History of Military, Political Science

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