Title: Rebels and robbers : violence in post-colonial Angola /
Authors: Malaquias, Assis.
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Violence Social aspects Angola.; Political violence Angola.; Gewalt.; Angola History; Angola Bürgerkrieg.
Abstract: "Rebels and Robbers is about the political economy of violence in post-colonial Angola. This book provides the first comprehensive attempt at analyzing how the military and non-military dynamics of more than four decades of conflict created the structural violence that stubbornly defines Angolan society even in the absence of war. The book clearly demonstrates that the end of the civil war has not ushered in positive peace."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. Background legacies of diversity, wealth, and colonialism -- 2. Violence and fractured nationalism -- 3. External interventions and internal violence -- 4. UNITA's insurgency mutations and self-mutilations -- 5. The problematic post-colonial state -- 6. War termination as survival strategy -- 7. Post-conflict challenges identity and governance -- 8. Toward a citizen-friendly state -- 9. External dimensions of positive peace.