State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

ISBN-13: 9781783608850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str.

Louisa Lombard

Opis

In 2012, a wave of violence swept through the Central African Republic as Seleka rebels clashed with anti-Balaka militias. In the face of seemingly senseless bloodshed, journalists, politicians, and scholars struggled to account for the conflict s origins. In this first comprehensive account of the violence, Louisa Lombard argues thatthe conflict was more than a straightforward religious clash between Christians and Muslims. Instead, she traces the roots of the conflict to fears of spiritual insecurity and a social breakdown that drove inter-communal violence.
Placing the uprising within its broader social, cultural, and historical context, Lombard reveals the complicated roles played by marginalized rural youths, local political leaders, and the global community in sustaining the conflict, and she offers an urgent corrective to our perceptions of this little-understood country, making a compelling case for international leaders to rethink their approach to resolving the conflict.
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Spis treści

Introduction 1. Conflict and the State in the Peace-Kept World 2. The Nativeness of ‘Foreign’ Violence 3. Mobility as Power 4. Long and Short Histories of Rebellion 5. DDR and the Frustration of Desires for Entitlement 6. War as the Violence of the Pack 7. World Champion of Peacekeeping Conclusion