Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
About the Book Series
The book series reflects the diversities and emerging trends in Africa’s conflict, peace and security terrain. It promotes innovative and deep insights into the complexities, shifts as well as continuities in the conflict, peace and security landscapes across the continent after the Cold war, and particularly since the turn of the century. The series responds to the demand for new analyses that systematically unpack and provide fresh perspectives to existing and emerging trends, and actors: individual, non-state, state, cross-border, regional and transnational, including the connections between the local, the regional and global levels and institutions. Issues to be covered span diverse approaches to conflict, violence, security, peacebuilding, politics, resource governance, regional and global interventions, and transitional justice among others. The series include full-length single-authored monographs, multi-authored books, edited collections and high quality thesis conversions based on cutting-edge innovative and original research on Africa.
To submit a proposal for Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa please contact Routledge African Studies editor Helena Hurd, [email protected]
Traditional Authority and Security in Contemporary Nigeria
1st Edition
Edited
By David Ehrhardt, David Oladimeji Alao, M. Sani Umar
April 14, 2025
Exploring the contentious landscape of Nigeria’s escalating violence, this book describes the changing roles of traditional authorities in combatting contemporary security challenges. Set against a backdrop of widespread security threats – including insurgency, land disputes, communal violence, ...
Globalised Resistance and the Bring Back Our Girls Movement: New Dimensions of Transnational Activism
1st Edition
By Titilope F. Ajayi
January 30, 2025
This book uncovers how women’s movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations against militarism and conflict-related gender violence. Drawing on the case study of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement established by Nigerian women for the ...
Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria
1st Edition
Edited
By Al Chukwuma Okoli, Saliou Ngom
December 18, 2024
This book examines the growing phenomenon of armed banditry in Nigeria and its implication for national security. Nigeria’s banditry crisis and deepening security challenges are fuelled by the existence of vast un(der)governed hinterland and trans-border spaces where various non-state armed groups ...
Conflict Management and Resolution in South Sudan
1st Edition
Edited
By Nelson Alusala, Emmaculate Asige Liaga, Martin Revai Rupiya
December 18, 2024
This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectives of the country, its key political, mediation and negotiation processes, peace and security, socio-economic development, and gender, as well as ...
Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ibrahim Bangura
November 28, 2024
This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, the book investigates the different theories, contextual realities and approaches that have informed ...
Living through Crisis by Lake Chad: Violence, Labor and Resources
1st Edition
By Alessio Iocchi
August 26, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area. In 2014 Boko Haram expanded into the Lake Chad region, prompting a ...
Rural Violence in Contemporary Nigeria: The State, Criminality and National Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Usman A. Tar, Bashir Bala
August 26, 2024
The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country. Rural violence in Nigeria is becoming an increasingly pressing concern, with cattle rustling, banditry, kidnapping and farmer-herder ...
Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo
May 27, 2024
This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies. Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from ...
Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ibrahim Bangura
May 27, 2024
This book critically examines and analyses the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their long-term impacts on society. Africa’s history is characterised by youth movements. The continent’s youth populations played pivotal...
Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Said Adejumobi, Cyril Obi
May 31, 2023
Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process. With a focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the contributions...
Liberia's First Civil War: A Narrative History
1st Edition
By Edmund Hogan
May 31, 2023
This book provides a comprehensive narrative history of Liberia’s first civil war, from its origins in the 1980s right through the conflict and up to the peace agreement and conclusion of hostilities in 1997. The first Liberian Civil War was one of Africa’s most devastating conflicts, claiming the...
Researching Peacebuilding in Africa: Reflections on Theory, Fieldwork and Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Ismail Rashid, Amy Niang
December 19, 2022
This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent. Drawing on a range of conceptual framings ...