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Title: | Peace and power sharing in Africa: a not so obvious relationship |
Author: | Mehler, Andreas |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 108 |
Issue: | 432 |
Pages: | 453-473 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire Kenya Liberia |
Subjects: | peace treaties power-sharing 2000-2009 |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40388400 |
Abstract: | Peace accords usually involve top politicians and military leaders, who negotiate, sign, and/or benefit from an agreement. What is conspicuously absent from such negotiations is broad-based participation by those who should benefit in the first place: citizens. More specifically, the local level of security provision and insecurity production is rarely taken into account. The author screens the major African peace agreements from the period 1999-2007 for their power-sharing content. In particular, he analyses two country cases of peace agreements (Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire) and one post-election crisis settlement (Kenya). The analysis of these cases shows important variations in power-sharing devices and why it is important to ask who is sharing power with whom. The conclusion is that experiences with power-sharing are mixed and far less positive than assumed by outside negotiators. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |