Wars and Conflicts in Africa since 1990 - Einzelansicht

This course deals with different forms of armed conflicts on the African continent, which started after the end of the East-West Conflict. Including new research questions, countries such as Liberia, Mali, Rwanda, or Sudan are covered. The lecture focuses on current discourses as well as the analysis of the reasons for, the different actors in, and the course and consequences of the different conflicts.

Clapham, Christopher (Ed.), African Guerrillas, Oxford 1998

Ellis, Stephen, The mask of anarchy. The destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war, New York 1999

Gberie, Lansana, A dirty war in West Africa. The RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone, London 2005

Johnson, Douglas H., The root causes of Sudan’s civil wars. Old Wars and New Wars, Suffolk 2016

Prunier, Gerard, The Rwanda Crisis. History of a Genocide 1995

Prunier, Gerard, Africa's World War. Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe, Oxford 2009

Reno, William, Warfare in Independent Africa, New York 2011

Thurston, Alexander, Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel. Local Politics and Rebel Groups, Cambridge 2020

Williams, Paul D., War & Conflict in Africa, Second Edition, Cambridge 2016

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