Whose peace are we building?: leadership for peace in Africa / Youssef Mahmoud with Albert Mbiatem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahmoud, Youssef, author.

Mbiatem, Albert, author.

Series:

African perspectives on peacebuilding and leadership

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Africa.

Peace-building.

Africa.

Political leadership--Africa.

Political leadership.

Politics and government.

Africa--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

x, 201 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The leadership journey

Context is king and listening is key

The UN: attempting reforms in the pursuit of an elusive peace

Burundi: the wounded puzzle

MINURCAT in Chad and CAR: an unhappy experiment

Leadership for peace

The structure of the book

1. Perspectives on Peacebuilding and Leadership

Perspectives on peacebuilding

Liberal peace: building states to build peace

From liberal peace to popular peace

From peacebuilding to sustaining peace

Perspectives on leadership

Leadership and peacebuilding: the nexus

Leadership for sustaining peace

2. An Uncharted Personal Leadership Path

The first of nine: born into leadership

My sojourn in the land of Shakespeare

My accidental journey to America and back

Making it to the green glass tower: the United Nations

From linguistics to politics via Cambodia and Zaire

From political affairs to development cooperation via the Caribbean

Concluding thoughts

3. Burundi: A Wounded Puzzle

A peaceful and resilient, pre-colonial Burundi

The origins of the festering wounds

Protracted civil war

An unstable situation of no peace no war, prior to my arrival

Concluding observations

4. Leading BINUB in a Fragile Context

An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of immersion

BINUB's evolving mandate

On exercising my integration hat as ERSG

Understanding and communicating BINUB's mandate

Forging a common understanding of integration

Engineering integration

Championing gender equality and women's empowerment

Women with national identity/voting cards

Epilogue on integration

Promoting inclusive dialogue

Reflections on dialogue

The peace process with the FNL: learning to lead from behind

Reflections on my contributions with respect to the FNL

Why was I asked to leave Burundi?

Was it all about human rights?

Saying farewell

Epilogue

5. A Trans-Border Humanitarian Crisis and a Contested Response

An evolving crisis

Vulnerable populations in unsafe shelters

UN and AU sporadic responses

UN protection peacekeeping mission without a political mandate

MINURCAT at the exit door

The situation on the ground on arrival

6. Leading MINURCAT to the Exit Door

Preparing the ground for negotiating MINURCAT's exit

The negotiations

The council extends MINURCAT's mandate

Implementing the exit process

Addressing the communication gap

The DIS, without frills, a viable local solution

Challenged by local staff grievances

Earning local good will during the last mile

Addressing management anomalies, extracting mission assets, consolidating gains

Addressing management anomalies

Extracting mission assets

Consolidating gains

Lessons learned from a troubled mission

Local expectations and mission mandate were not aligned

Failure to communicate

Nurturing consent

Shared understanding of PO C

Planning for a harsh operational environment

DIS, an unsustainable community policing model

7. What It Would Take to Build Peace Better

Make peace the end goal, but don't give it a shape

Recognizing complexity, targeting resilience

The sustainability challenge

Security Council mandate: floor or ceiling?

Leadership for sustaining peace: what would I do differently?

Avenues for further research on peace and leadership

Redefine leadership for sustaining peace and global crisis management

Leadership for peace beyond the gender lens

Incorporate differing perspectives on peacebuilding and leadership

Why is peace treated as an exception?

Increase understanding of peace in contexts under stress

Going forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0755618882

9780755618880

9780755618545

0755618548

OCLC:

1179259074

Publisher Number:

99987395111