Development and Democracy in Post-conflict

African Nations, April 28-29, 2009

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Helen Hintjens: Land reform, social peace and human security: Challenges for post-genocide Rwanda

Urusaro Alice Karekezi: Challenges of a popularly perpetrated genocide and Gacaca in Rwanda

Thomas Kwasi Tieku: Closing the Gaps: AU democracy promotion in Post-Conflict States in Africa

Elisabeth King: Acknowledging memories of violence in post-genocide Rwanda

Amina Mama: Militarism, Gender, and Underdevelopment

Muna Ndulo: The Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Social and Economic Development and Post Conflict Societies

Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley: No Justice No Peace: The elusive search for justice and reconciliation in post-conflict Sierra Leone

Jessica Schafer: The role of former combatants in post-war Mozambique

Joseph Bangura: The dynamics of peacekeeping in West Africa: Examining ECOMOG’s“Interposition” in Sierra Leone

Osman Gbla: Governance challenges in post-conflict African states: The Sierra Leone experience

Amos Claudius Sawyer: Challenges of Governance Reform in Post-Conflict Liberia

John C. Yoder: Post-conflict elections as predictors of democratic success: The examples of Liberia and Sierra Leone

Lynette C. Jackson: The Role of Diasporas in Post-Conflict Development: The Case of Southern Sudan

Cassandra Veney: The Role of African Americans in African Conflict Resolution and Development

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza: The Role of Diasporas in Conflict Making and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Arthur Abraham: The Role of Paramount Chiefs in Post-conflict transitions: The case of Sierra Leone

Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale: The role of NGOs in post-conflict Sierra Leone: Undermining the State?

Marda Mustapha: The Youth Question: Persistent 'Unfreedoms" and Neo-patrimonialism in Post-War Sierra Leone