Making sense of the Central African Republic
By: edited by Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781783603794
Subjects: Politics and government; Peace-building
Description: "Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding initiatives, hosting a two-decade-long succession of UN and regional peacekeeping, peacebuilding and special political missions. Drawing together the foremost experts on the Central African Republic, this much-needed volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the country's recent history of rebellion, instability, and international and regional intervention."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making Sense of CAR: An Introduction / Louisa Lombard and Tatiana Carayannis; title: CAR's History: The Past of a Tense Present / Stephen W. Smith; title: Being Rich, Being Poor: Wealth and Fear in the Central African Republic / Roland Marchal; title: Local Dynamics in the Pk5 District of Bangui / Faouzi Kilembe; title: The Elite's Road to Riches in a Poor Country / Stephen W. Smith; title: A Multifaceted Business: Diamonds in the Central African Republic / Ned Dalby; title: The Autonomous Zone Conundrum: Armed Conservation and Rebellion in North-Eastern CAR / Louisa Lombard; title: CAR and the Regional (Dis)order / Roland Marchal; title: Pathologies of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding in CAR / Nathaniel Olin; title: From Being Forgotten to Being Ignored: International Humanitarian Interventions in the Central African Republic / Enrica Picco; title: CAR's Southern Identity: Congo, CAR, and International Justice / Tatiana Carayannis; title: In Unclaimed Land: The Lord's Resistance Army in CAR / Ledio Cakaj; title: A Central African Elite Perspective on the Struggles of the Central African Republic / Laurence D. Wohlers; title: A Concluding Note on the Failure and Future of Peacebuilding in CAR / Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard.