Durable peace: Challenges for peace building in Africa

This collection of essays explores efforts by Africans to rebuild their countries after lengthy and costly civil wars and grows directly out of our earlier volume, Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution (1999). Once civil wars had come to an end, it seemed to us that the next logical step was the regeneration of their economy, society, and polity. With encouragement from many of ou colleagues and generous support from Oxfam-Canada, Project Ploughshares, the Steelworkers of America, the United Church of Canada, and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, we held a one-day workshop in May 1999 to develop a common framework for the case and thematic studies we then envisaged. A year later, in June 2000, we convened a two-day conference on peacebuilding in Africa.