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African conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks
The Nordic Africa Institute, Conflict, Displacement and Transformation.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2022-6985
2012 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Through a variety of indepth case studies – from DRC to Somalia to Liberia amongst others – this book shows how important informal political and economic networks are in many of the continent’s conflict areas.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London ; Uppsala: Zed Books ; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2012. , p. 255
Series
Africa Now
Keywords [en]
Conflicts, Foreign intervention, Dispute settlement, International politics, International relations, State, Local government, Political power, Informal sector, Case studies, Africa, Peacebuilding, Post-conflict reconstruction
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-1517DOI: 10.5040/9781350218130ISBN: 9781848138827 (print)ISBN: 9781848138834 (print)ISBN: 9781848138841 (electronic)ISBN: 9781848138858 (electronic)ISBN: 9781350218130 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-1517DiVA, id: diva2:506340
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Contents: -- Introduction: Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts / Mats Utas -- Part 1: Country case studies --  1. Informal political structures, resources and the Ugandan army; military entrepreneurialism in the Ugandan-Congolese borderland / Koen Vlassenroot and Sandrine Perot -- 2. Big Man Business in the Borderland of Sierra Leone / Maya Mynster Christensen -- 3. The politics of impersonation: Corps habillés, Nouchis, and subaltern Bigmanity in Côte d'Ivoire / Karel Arnaut -- 4. Demobilized or remobilized? Liberia's remaining rebel structures in post-war security settings / Mariam Persson -- 5. 'Castles in the sand': Informal networks and power brokers in the Northern Mali periphery / Morten Böås -- Part 2: Thematic case studies -- 6. Critical states and cocaine connections / Henrik Vigh -- 7. African Big Men and international criminal justice: the case of Sierra Leone / Gerhard Anders -- 8. Big Man bargaining in African conflicts / Ilmari Käihkö -- 9. Intermediaries of peace or agents of war: the role of ex-midlevel commanders in Big Man networks / Anders Themnér -- 10. The Big Men commanding conflict resources in Africa: the DRC case / Ruben de Koning

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