State of rebellion : violence and intervention in the Central African Republic / Louisa Lombard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lombard, Louisa, author.

Contributor:

International African Institute.

Royal African Society.

World Peace Foundation.

Series:

African arguments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Central African Republic.

Violence.

Central African Republic.

Physical Description:

pages.

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2016.

Summary:

In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins. In this first comprehensive study of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far - that the violence has been due to a religious divide, or politicians' manipulations, or profiteering. Instead, she shows that conflict has long been useful to Central African politics, a tendency that has been exacerbated by the international community's method of engagement with so-called fragile states. An urgent insight into this little-understood country and the problems with peacebuilding more broadly. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Conflict and the state in the peace-kept world 27

2 The nativeness of 'foreign' violence 59

3 Mobility as power 85

4 Long and short histories of rebellion 113

5 DDR and the frustration of desires for entitlement 141

6 War as the violence of the pack 177

7 World champion of peacekeeping 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.

ISBN:

1783608854

9781783608850

9781783608843

1783608846

OCLC:

945390725