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Constitutions and conflict management in Africa : preventing civil war through institutional design / edited by Alan J. Kuperman. - vi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century . - National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-272) and index.

Designing constitutions to reduce domestic conflict / Alan J. Kuperman -- Burundi : institutionalizing ethnicity to bridge the ethnic divide / Filip Reyntjens -- Kenya : gradual pluralization fails to buffer shocks / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- Nigeria : devolution to mitigate conflict in the Niger Delta / Eghosa E. Osaghae -- Sudan : "successful" constitutional reform spurs localized violence / Karly Kupferberg and Stefan Wolff -- Ghana : the complements of successful centralization : checks, balances, and informal accommodation / Justin Orlando Frosini -- Senegal : the limits of hyper-centralization / William Zartman, Hillary Thomas-Lake, and Arame Tall -- Zimbabwe : the unintended consequences of authoritarian institutions / Andrew Reynolds -- Africa's domestic institutions of integration and accommodation : a new database / Eli Poupko -- Rethinking constitutional reform for democracy and stability / Alan J. Kuperman.

ISBN: 9780812246582 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2015008083

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conflict management--Africa--Case studies.
Constitutional law--Africa--Case studies.
Civil war--Prevention.--Africa

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--Politics and government--1960---Case studies.

LC Class. No.: DT30.5 / .C666 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 303.6096