This edited text builds on a core set of concepts to offer insights into conflict management and African politics. Key concepts such as ripe moments, hurting stalemates, and collapsed states, are built upon in order to show how conflict resolution theory may be applied to contemporary challenges, particularly in Africa.

Originally published: 2008.

1. Conflict management and African politics: framing the links / Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M. Khadiagala. PART 1. NEW RESEARCH ON NEGOTIATION THEORY: 2. Ripeness revisited: the perils of muscular mediation / Alan J. Kuperman ; 3. Perverse negotiations: bribery, bargaining, and ripeness / Bertram I. Spector ; 4. Putting "The practical negotiator" to the test: two examinations of the formula. details proposition / Pamela Chasek and Lynn Wagner. PART 2. THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF AFRICA: 5. The evolution of Euro-African relations / Gilbert M. Khadiagala ; 6. Post-Cold war conflict in West Africa / Terrence Lyons. PART 3. CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AFRICA: 7. Conditions for mediation success: evaluating US initiatives in Sudan and Liberia / Donald S. Rothchild ; 8. The Zimbabwe independence settlement revisited: race, land, class, and ripe moments / Fadzai Gwarazimba ; 9. African conflict "Medicine": an emerging paradigm shift in African conflict resolution / Ben K. Fred-Mensah