The Resolution of African Conflicts: The Management of Conflict Resolution & Post-conflict Reconstruction

Dr. Alfred G. Nhema is the executive secretary of OSSREA, the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Addis Ababa. He is the author of Democracy in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Liberalization. He is also editor of The Quest for Peace in Africa: Transformations, Democracy and Public Policy . He is also the co-editor of The Roots of African Conflicts.


Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Head of the Department of African American Studies, Professor of African American Studies and History and the Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was elected Vice-President of the (U.S.) African Studies Association for 2007-2008 and will serve as President in 2008-2009.  He has authored or edited more than two dozen books including most recently The Roots of African Conflicts; The Study of Africa; and African Universities in the Twenty-First Century.