While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts.

"These two volumes clearly demonstrate the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts

The authors assert that sovereignty can no longer be seen as a protection against interference, but as a charge of responsibility where the state is accountable

Elections have emerged as one of the most important, and most contentious, features of political life on the African continent. In the first half of this decade

This publication is the product of the 25th Annual Africa and Diaspora Conference in 2016, organized by the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution at