TY - BOOK AU - Kuperman,Alan J. TI - Constitutions and conflict management in Africa: preventing civil war through institutional design T2 - National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century SN - 9780812246582 (alk. paper) AV - DT30.5 .C666 2015 U1 - 303.6096 23 KW - Conflict management KW - Africa KW - Case studies KW - Constitutional law KW - Civil war KW - Prevention KW - Politics and government KW - 1960- N1 - 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 ER -