Conflict Management and African Politics: Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation (Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management)

169 Pages·2008·1.22 MB·English

by  Terrence Lyons

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Conflict Management and
African Politics
This edited volume builds on a core set of concepts developed by I. William
Zartman to offer new insights into conflict management and African politics.Key
concepts,such as ripe moments,hurting stalemates,and collapsed states,are built
upon in order to show how conflict resolution theory may be applied to
contemporary challenges,particularly in Africa.The contributors explore means
of preempting negotiations over bribery, improving outcomes in environmental
negotiations, boosting the capacity of mediators to end violent conflicts, and
finding equitable negotiated outcomes.Other issues dealt with in the book include
the negotiation of relations with Europe, the role of culture in African conflict
resolution,the means to enhance security in unstable regional environments,and
the strategic role of the United States in mediating African conflicts.
This book will be of much interest to students of international conflict
management,peace/conflict studies,African politics,and International Relations
in general.
Terrence Lyonsis Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Co-director of the Center for Global
Studies,George Mason University.
Gilbert M. Khadiagala is Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and
Head of the Department of International Relations,University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg,South Africa.
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Security and conflict management
Series Editors: Fen Osler Hampson
Carleton University,Canada
Chester Crocker
Georgetown University,Washington DC
Pamela Aall
United States Institute of Peace,Washington DC
This series will publish the best work in the field of security studies and conflict
management. In particular, it will promote leading-edge work that straddles the
divides between conflict management and security studies, between academics
and practitioners,and between disciplines.
1 Negotiation and Conflict Management
I.William Zartman
2 Conflict Management and African Politics
Ripeness,bargaining,and mediation
Edited by Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M.Khadiagala
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Conflict Management and
African Politics
Ripeness, bargaining, and mediation
Edited by
Terrence Lyons and
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
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First published 2008
by Routledge
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© 2008 Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M.Khadiagala,selection and
editorial matter;the contributors,their own chapters
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ISBN 0-203-93081-9 Master e-book ISBN
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ISBN13:978–0–415–44301–2 (hbk)
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To I. William Zartman
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Contents
List of illustrations ix
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xiii
1 Conflict management and African politics:
framing the links 1
TERRENCE LYONS AND GILBERT M. KHADIAGALA
PART I
New research on negotiation theory 7
2 Ripeness revisited:the perils of muscular
mediation 9
ALAN J. KUPERMAN
3 Perverse negotiations:bribery,bargaining,
and ripeness 22
BERTRAM I. SPECTOR
4 PuttingThe Practical Negotiatorto the test:two
examinations of the formula–details proposition 38
PAMELA CHASEK AND LYNN WAGNER
PART II
The international relations of Africa 65
5 The evolution of Euro-African relations 67
GILBERT M. KHADIAGALA
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viii Contents
6 Post-cold war conflict in West Africa:a subordinate
state system in collapse? 83
TERRENCE LYONS
PART III
Conflict and conflict resolution in Africa 95
7 Conditions for mediation success:evaluating
US initiatives in Sudan and Liberia 97
DONALD S. ROTHCHILD
8 The Zimbabwe independence settlement revisited:
race,land,class,and ripe moments 120
FADZAI GWARAZIMBA
9 African conflict “Medicine”:an emerging paradigm
shift in African conflict resolution? 135
BEN K. FRED-MENSAH
Index 145
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Illustrations
Figure
2.1 Zartman’s ripeness theory 10
Box
4.1 Cases of multilateral environmental negotiation 41
Tables
4.1 Phases of multilateral negotiation:a comparison of
different approaches 43
4.2 Phases of multilateral environmental negotiation 44
4.3 Matrix of gamma coefficients 48
4.4 Negotiation cases 53
4.5 Process and outcome profiles 54
4.6 Process and outcome percentages 56
4.7 Process on each article and outcome 58
4.8 Problem-solving percentage during each stage 59
4.9 Process and outcome correlation coefficients by stage (N(cid:1)13) 59
7.1 Civil wars in Liberia and Sudan 100
7.2 US mediation effort 115