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The Political Economy of Development in AfricaThe Political Economy of Development in Africa
A joint statement from five research programmes, May 2012.
On behalf of:
Africa Power and Politics Programme
The Developmental Leadership Program
Elites, Production and Poverty: A Comparative Analysis
Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Tracking Development
Mapping Digital Media: South AfricaWritten by Guy Berger (reporter), Zikhona Masala (lead reporter), Open Society Information Program Team: Vera Franz, senior program manager; Darius Cuplinskas, 2 March 2012
The Global Information Technology Report 2012, Living in a Hyperconnected WorldThe Global Information Technology Report 2012 is a special project within the framework of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance and the Industry Partnership Programme for Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries. It is the result of a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and INSEAD. ISBN-10: 92-95044-33-9, ISBN-13: 978-92-95044-33-3, 441 pages
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E-governance and Citizen Participation in West Africa: Challenges and OpportunitiesThe Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of the UNECAProceedings of the Fourth Joint Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of the UNECA
Addressing Côte d’Ivoire’s Deeper CrisisWritten by Thierno Mouctar Bah , the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, March 2012.
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Women and Security Governance in AfricaEdited by Funmi Olonisakin and Awino Okech, Pambazuka Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 9781906387891, 172pgs.
Demystifying AidWritten by Yash Tandon, published by Pambazuka Press, November 2011, ISBN-13: 9780857490902, 40pgs
The Politics of Resources Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations, and the StateTerence Gomez and Suzana Sawyer, Palgrave, 978-0-230-34772-4, 336 pgs
ECOWAS and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peace-building
Edited by Thomas Jaye, Dauda Garuba and Stella Amadi . Dakar, CODESRIA, 2011, 252p, ISBN: 978-2-86978-496-3
ECOWAS and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peace-building testifies to the fact that we cannot talk of West African affairs, more so of conflict and peace-building, without talking about ECOWAS. For over two decades now, West Africa has remained one of Africa’s most conflict-ridden regions. It has been a theatre of some of the most atrocious brutalities in the modern world. It has, nonetheless, witnessed one of the most ambitious internal efforts towards finding regional solutions to conflicts through ECOWAS.
The lead role of ECOMOG – the ECOWAS peacekeeping force – in search of peaceful solutions to civil wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and Cote d’Ivoire has yielded a mix of successes and failures. In this book, the authors take a candid look at the role that ECOWAS has played and show how the sub-regional organisation has stabilised and created new conditions conducive to nation building in a number of cases. Conversely, the book shows that ECOWAS has aggravated, if not created, new tensions in yet other cases. The comparative advantage that ECOWAS has derived from these experiences is reflected in the various mechanisms, protocols and conventions that are now in place to ensure a more comprehensive conflict prevention framework.
This book provides a nuanced analysis of the above issues and other dynamics of conflicts in the region. It also interrogates the roles played by ECOWAS and various other actors in the context of the complex interplay between natural resource governance, corruption, demography and the youth bulge, gender and the conflicting interests of national, regional and international players.
Thomas Jaye is the Deputy Director of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana. His research interests include international security issues, democracy, post-conflict peace-building and reconstruction. His main work has been on regional security issues and security sector reform (SSR) with emphasis on security sector governance.
Dauda Garuba is the Nigeria Programme Coordinator for Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) – an independent policy organisation dedicated to promoting research, capacity building and advocacy on effective governance of oil, gas and mining revenues. He was formerly a Senior Programme Officer for peace and security at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Abuja, Nigeria.
Stella Amadi was, until 2009, the Head of Programmes at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Abuja, Nigeria. She is a lawyer and gender specialist. She has participated regularly in the annual meetings of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) at the United Nations in New York..
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