Peacemaking and democratisation in Africa : theoretical perspectives and church initiatives / edited by Hizkias Assefa and George Wachira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Assefa, Hizkias.

Wachira, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

All Africa Conference of Churches.

Nairobi Peace Initiative.

Peace--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Peace.

Peace--Religious aspects.

Democracy--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Democracy.

Democracy--Religious aspects.

Church and state--Africa, East--Congresses.

Church and state.

Africa, East.

Church and state--Africa, Southern--Congresses.

Southern Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 242 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1996.

Summary:

Ibrahim offers a comparative study of the democratic transitions in the Anglophone countries of West Africa, identifying regional trends and discreet factors. He argues that democracy is creeping up the agenda, owing to a detremined struggle for human rights and because democracy has been denied to the people for so long. He identifies a number of common issues across the region: the rise of a militarised secular state; a significant increase in public corruption; the primitive accumulation of capital; an intense battle to deepen democracy between civil society and the state; the appropriation of gender poltiics by the state through the office of the 'first ladies'; and the growing dissidence between elections and political choice. The study also addresses what may be considered an acceptable regional model in Ghana, and an unacceptable example in Liberia.

Notes:

Papers from a symposium of church leaders held in Nyeri, Kenya, July 18-23, 1993, sponsored by the All African Conference of Churches, the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Africa, and the Nairobi Peace Initiative.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9966468374

OCLC:

36393545