GLOBALIZATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE AND SUDAN

📄 Project Abstract

Dominant scholarships on globalization and conflict management take one of two basic approaches. The providentialists describe it as a process of unifying the world into a one happy and peaceful family of 7 God. The constructionists conceive it as a human effort towards the creation of a borderless world through technological inventions. Both approaches failed to recognize resource inequalities as the driving force of both processes. It is against this backdrop that this study sought answers to the following questions: (a) Is there any link between globalization and conflict management? (b)Are the escalating conflict situations in Africa a consequence of globalization? (c) Is conflict management, especially the management of conflict in Cote d'Ivoire and Sudan a process of creating and or restoring conduce environment for the movement of people, goods and capital across borders? (d)Is wealth redistribution by the states of Africa capable of enhancing conflict management in Africa? The ...