Constitutions and conflict management in Africa :  preventing civil war through institutional design / 
edited by Alan J. Kuperman. 
 - Philadelphia :  University of Pennsylvania Press,,  ♭2015. 
 - vi, 294 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm. 
 - National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century .
 - National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-272) and index. 
<br/><br/>Designing constitutions to reduce domestic conflict / Alan J. Kuperman -- Burundi : institutionalizing ethnicity to bridge the ethnic divide / Filip Reyntjens -- Kenya : gradual pluralization fails to buffer shocks / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- Nigeria : devolution to mitigate conflict in the Niger Delta / Eghosa E. Osaghae -- Sudan : "successful" constitutional reform spurs localized violence / Karly Kupferberg and Stefan Wolff -- Ghana : the complements of successful centralization : checks, balances, and informal accommodation / Justin Orlando Frosini -- Senegal : the limits of hyper-centralization / William Zartman, Hillary Thomas-Lake, and Arame Tall -- Zimbabwe : the unintended consequences of authoritarian institutions / Andrew Reynolds -- Africa's domestic institutions of integration and accommodation : a new database / Eli Poupko -- Rethinking constitutional reform for democracy and stability / Alan J. Kuperman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812246582 (hpb) :  $70.85 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015008083 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Conflict management--Africa--Case studies.<br/>Constitutional law--Africa--Case studies.<br/>Civil war--Prevention.--Africa
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Politics and government--1960---Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT30.5  / .C666 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>AFR 303.6096 Con 2015