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Casa África aumenta su Colección de Ensayo con un nuevo título
Casa África has created from its start its Essay Collection, an editorial line that has been created to give visibility to the knowledge of African thinkers, writers and theorists as well as Africanists, so as to support the study and research on matters that deal with the continent's development and potential from a point of view that is far away from stereotypes with which we have usually tackled African reality.
On these lines, Casa África annually awards the Essay Prizes, to encourage the investigation and dissemination of knowledge on African issues and whose winners will get, as well as a cash prize, the satisfaction of seeing their work published, which goes on to form part of Casa África's Essay Collection, published in collaboration with the Editorial Los libros de la Catarata and that can be bought at bookshops and department stores all over Spain as well as on its website.
Casa Africa continues expanding the number of titles that make up this editorial line and in November 2013 the work "The liberal dream in sub-Saharan Africa” is included into its collection. “Debates y controversias sobre la construcción de la paz", a book by Itziar Ruiz-Giménez Arrieta (ed.), Virginia Rodríguez Bartolomé, María Serrano Martín de Vidales, Raquel Ferrão, Óscar Mateos Martín and Aleksi Ylönen.
The 224 pages of this publication, try to answer the question of whether liberal peace is a valid recipe to resolve African armed conflicts.
The idea that peace building necessarily involves sending international missions has been consolidated within the international political agenda over the past few years, which together with local elites, have promoted deep structural reforms in post-conflict African societies in order to rebuild their (supposedly collapsed) state institutions and make them become democracies that are representative of the market.
This recipe has been deployed in more than eighteen African countries, generating many debates, controversies and dilemmas about their efficiency and effectiveness, but also on their legitimacy.
This book carries out an introduction to some of these debates and controversies, especially those related to international sanctions, transitional justice, the return of refugees, reform in the security sector and programmes for disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of fighters to show, among other things, how the hegemonic vision (liberal peace) portrays the "external" actors as liberals and peacemakers compared to others, the Africans (local or regional), who are accused of being illiberal. In this way the many illiberal practices that are also deployed by the international actors in peace processes in the sub-Saharan continent are hidden.
