From Civil Strife to Peace Building

Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction
Herausgeber: Besada, Hany

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Produktbeschreibung

From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief, the traditional remedies for dependency and underdevelopment, have not been effective, the private sector is increasingly viewed as a major player in the revival of regional economies. Private sector support, however, requires government intervention to improve investment climates, curb corruption, strengthen the security sector, and reduce the cost of doing business. The contributors discuss ways in which West African governments can encourage the greater involvement of business in humanitarian support with incentives that demonstrate alignment with business objectives and profit margins, making humanitarian support simple and, more importantly, profitable and sustainable for both local and foreign investors. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580521
• ISBN-10: 1554580528
• Artikelnr.: 26157931

Autorenporträt

Hany Besada is a Senior Researcher: Development Cooperation at the North-South Institute (NSI) in Ottawa, Canada. He was formerly a Senior Researcher and Program Leader at CIGI where he oversaw the Health and Social Governance Program. He has worked at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Amnesty International, United Nations Associations, the Joan Kroc Institute of Peace and Justice (IPJ), and the Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. He is the editor of Zimbabwe: Picking Up the Pieces (Palgrave, 2011), Crafting an African Security Architecture: Addressing Regional Peace and Conflict in the 21st Century (2010), From Civil Strife to Peace Building: Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction (WLU Press, 2009) and Unlocking Africa's Potential: The Role of Corporate South Africa in Strengthening Africa's Private Sector (2008).

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Table of Contents for
From Civil Strife to Peace Building: Examining Private Sector Involvement
in West African Reconstruction, edited by Hany Besada
List of Figures and Tables
Foreward I High Commissioner Darren Schemmer
Foreword II Jonathan G. Coppel
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Peacebuilding and the Role of the Private Sector in Post-Conflict West
Africa: A Conceptual Framework Hany Besada, Vadim Ermakov, and Miran
Ternamian
Part I: Côte d'Ivoire
1. From Linas-Marcoussis to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement: The
Torturous and Open-Ended Peace Process in Côte d'Ivoire Gilles Yabi and
Andrew Goodwin
2. The Politics of Post-Conflict Elections in Côte d'Ivoire Chrysantus
Ayangafac
3. Côte d'Ivoire: The Role of the Private Sector in Building a Peace
Economy Willene A. Johnson
4. Foreign Investors and International Donor Contributions to Côte
d'Ivoire's State-Building Efforts Lydie Boka-Mene and Oren E. Whyche-Shaw
Part II: Sierra Leone
5. Breaking with the Past: Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone Ozonnia
Ojielo
6. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The Role of the UN Integrated Office in
Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) Sunday Abogonye Ochoche
7. The Role of the Private Sector in Sierra Leone's Post-Conflict
Reconstruction Efforts Emmanuel Nnadozie and Siham Abdulmelik
8. The Role of the Privatization Program as a Catalyst for Economic Reform
in Sierra Leone Andrew K. Keili
Part III: Liberia
9. State-Building Efforts in Post-Conflict Liberia Sunny Nyemah
10. Security-Sector Reform in Liberia Mark Malan
11. State Building in a Post-Conflict Context: The Liberian Framework for
Donor Aid and Private Investments Caroline Khoubesserian
12. Liberia: Building Peace Through Investment-Climate Reform David
Bridgman and Robert Krech
Afterword Eddy Maloka
Recommended Reading
Index
Contributors
Siham Abdulmelik is a consultant working with the NEPAD Support Section at
the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Previously, she worked in Sudan in
the field of parliamentary development with the Canadian Parliamentary
Centre. She was involved in developing the peacebuilding program designed
to enhance the capacity of the National Assembly and the Southern Sudan
Legislative Assembly to support the peace agreements signed and to
strengthen the democratic process under way. Her background is in economics
and public policy. Her research interests are in African governance
mechanisms, institutional capacity building, and post-conflict recovery.
Chrysantus (Chris) Ayangafac is a senior researcher at the Institute for
Security Studies, Addis Ababa office. His research interest is conflict
prevention, management, and resolution in Africa. He is currently
researching regional security mechanisms in Africa with a specific interest
in the African Peace and Security Architecture. He has published widely on
conflict and integration in Africa. His latest publication, as editor, is
The Political Economy of Regionalization in Central Africa. He is also a
reviewer for the International Journal of Transitional Justice and has done
extensive radio and television interviews on conflicts on the continent
with radio stations such as SADC Africa, Channel Africa, and Radio
Netherlands. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at the University of
Witwatersrand, Department of International Relations. His proposed Ph.D.
thesis is titled "The Natural Resources Conflict Nexus: Bringing Back
Politics."
Hany Besada is the Senior Researcher and Program Leader of the Health and
Social Governance Program at the Centre for International Governance
Innovation. Mr. Besada's research interests include African economic and
political development, Middle East studies, international diplomacy,
fragile/failed states, private-sector development, and conflict resolution.
He holds his M.A. and B.A. in International Relations from Alliant
International University in San Diego, where he specialized in peace and
security studies. Before joining CIGI, he worked as the Business in Africa
Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to that, he worked as a research
manager at Africa Business Direct, a trade and investment consulting firm
in Johannesburg. He also worked at a number of non-governmental and
governmental research institutes and offices. These included Amnesty
International, the Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, United Nations
Associations, and the Joan Kroc Institute of Peace and Justice.
Lydie Boka-Mene's background is in international economics and finance
(Diplomatische Akademie, Vienna, Austria). She has twenty year's experience
in project finance (including agricultural commodities) and management as
well as risk analysis. Her employers include USAID, the International
Finance Corporation, the African Development Bank, and other financial
institutions in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. She is the founder and
manager of StrategiCo. (http://www.strategico.org), which specializes in
risk analysis in Africa and the Middle East using a methodology designed to
capture developing countries' risk. Ms. Boka is a dual citizen of France
and Côte d'Ivoire. StrategiCo. clients includes corporate and financial
institutions, as well as decision makers from Africa and the Middle East.
David Bridgman is the lead expert in private-sector development in the
World Bank Group Investment Climate Team for Africa. He leads the team's
work on investment institutions in Africa and holds specific responsibility
for leading the team's advisory program in Liberia. Previously, he managed
MIGA's Sub-Saharan Africa Program. Before that he established and managed
MIGA's global investment promotion capacity-building program. A South
African national, he holds degrees from South African and American
universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in International Development from
Cornell University. During his career he has served on numerous public and
publicprivate sector boards and has held teaching and research positions at
universities in South Africa and the United States. Prior to joining MIGA,
he established an economic development agency in South Africa and was
actively involved in development matters during and after South Africa's
political transformation.
Jonathan Coppel is the executive program manager of the NEPAD-OECD Africa
Investment Initiative and senior economist developing user guidelines for
the Policy Framework for Investment with the OECD Investment Division.
Since joining the OECD he has held a range of positions, including Deputy
Counsellor to the Chief Economist, head of the EU and UK Desks, and energy
market analyst. Mr. Coppel has also held senior management positions in the
Reserve Bank of Australia. He started his career at the Australian
Commonwealth Treasury. He was educated at the Australian National
University and at Columbia University in New York.
Vadim Ermakov is an associate at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Porto,
Portugal. He holds a B.A. in international economic relations from the
University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, an M.Sc. in
technology and innovation management from Sussex University in Brighton,
and an M.P.P. in public policy from the Hertie School of Governance in
Berlin. Prior to joining PwC he completed an internship at CIGI in
Waterloo, Ontario, where he worked with Hany Besada, a senior researcher
and program leader in the Health and Social Governance Program. While
studying in the United Kingdom, he was a policy consultant at the South
East of England Development Agency and successfully completed the project
Nurturing Innovation in the South-East Region: Assessment of the Innovation
Advisory Service. He also worked on several development projects in
Uzbekistan, supervised by the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development.
Andrew Goodwin majored in political science at the University of British
Columbia and pursued a graduate degree in international relations at the
Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille. He interned at the West African
Network for Peacebuilding in Ghana and the International Crisis Group in
Senegal, where this chapter was co-authored. He is currently a junior
consultant at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
Willene A. Johnson is currently president of Komaza, Inc., an economic
consulting firm specializing in the role of finance in development and
reconstruction. Focusing on Africa, Dr. Johnson conducts research and
offers instruction in various subjects, including microfinance and
security-sector resource management. From January 2000 to September 2001,
she served in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, as the U.S. Executive Director of the
African Development Bank, overseeing AfDB policies and development
activities throughout Africa. She also serves as a member of the UN
Committee for Development Policy and as the Vice-Chair of the Grameen
Foundation African Advisory Council. Until recently, she was Chair of the
Sub-Saharan African Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and
an adjunct professor of applied economics and management at Cornell
University. Her work in finance and development builds on insights gained
during nearly twenty years in the Federal Reserve System, where her career
included economic research, foreign exchange, international financial
markets, international affairs, and equal employment opportunity. Her
education includes an A.B. in social studies from Radcliffe College,
Harvard University, an M.A. in African history from Saint John's
University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.
Andrew Keili, a mining engineer by profession, is managing director of
CEMMATS Group Ltd., a leading multidisciplinary engineering and project
management consulting practice in Sierra Leone. Mr. Keili worked for a
substantial period in the diamond and rutile mines in Sierra Leone before
embarking on consultancy work. Over the past thirty years he has held
positions of increasing responsibility in the private mining industry, in
parastatals, and in consultancy work in Sierra Leone. He has an extensive
background in the formulation and review of government policies,
particularly in the mining, environmental, and infrastructure sectors, and
has written extensively on the Sierra Leone mining industry. He has done
consultancy work for several companies in the United States, Ukraine, and
various countries in Africa. He is a member of the National Policy Advisory
Committee to the president of Sierra Leone and has substantial experience
in the Sierra Leone business sector. Mr. Keili is also chairman of the
board of trustees of the National Social Security and Insurance Trust in
Sierra Leone and a council member of the Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce,
Industry, and Agriculture and the Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers.
Caroline Khoubesserian has been working as a humanitarian aid worker since
2006 in Darfur, Liberia, and currently in Haiti. From 2003 to 2006 she was
the senior research officer with the Centre for International Governance
Innovation, where she coordinated several projects on multilateral
governance, including global health governance and the L20 project. She has
also worked in Lesotho with the Ministry of Justice to compile a UN Human
Rights Report on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. She holds an M.A.
in international politics from Dalhousie University and a B.Sc. in
political science from the University of Ottawa.
Robert Krech has worked on conflict-affected countries for the past ten
years, including Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Somalia. He completed his graduate
work in political science at the University of Toronto, where he focused on
post-conflict reconstruction and conducted field research in Sierra Leone.
He has published on postwar reconstruction and presented widely on the
topic. He has worked for the World Bank for the past six years and lived in
Liberia for two years, where he worked in the World Bank country office.
Currently he works for the Foreign Investment Advisory Services in the
World Bank Group as an operations specialist for Fragile and
Conflict-Affected Countries.
Mark Malan is an analyst with the New Zealand Centre for Army Lessons. From
May 2007 to July 2008 he served with Refugees International as
Peacebuilding Program Officer and Executive Coordinator for the Partnership
for Effective Peacekeeping. From 2004 to 2006 he established and headed the
Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution Department of the Kofi
Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. From 1996 to 2003, he
served as a senior researcher and head of the Peace Missions Program at the
Institute for Security Studies. Before joining the ISS, he served for
twenty years with the South African Army, attaining the rank of lieutenant
colonel and holding a variety of posts, including senior lecturer in
political science at the SA Military Academy. Malan has developed a number
of regional peacekeeping training courses and manuals and has published
extensively on regional security and peacekeeping in Africa. He has been an
active participant in the African and global policy debate on peace support
operations. He drafted the White Paper on South African participation in
peace missions and was a contributing author to the supplementary volume of
the ICISS report, The Responsibility to Protect.
Eddy Maloka is currently the Adviser, Governance, Public Administration,
and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, at the NEPAD Secretariat. Previously he
was responsible for the African Legacy Program at the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Local Organizing Committee. For seven years he was CEO of the Africa
Institute of South Africa. Before joining the AISA, Maloka was a lecturer
at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town; for
about two years after that he was a political adviser in the Office of the
Premier in South Africa's provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Maloka
writes widely on development issues on the African continent. He researches
extensively on political and developmental issues in Africa, including the
history of the liberation struggle in South Africa, and writes a weekly
column for the Sowetan. Maloka has delivered lectures at the world's
premier universities, including Oxford and Princeton. He is Vice-President
for Southern Africa of the Association of African Political Science and
President of the SA Association of Political Studies.
Emmanuel Nnadozie is senior economist and chief of the UN Coordination Unit
for AU/NEPAD Support at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). At one
time he was focal point for the African Peer Review Mechanism at ECA.
Before joining ECA in June 2004 he was an economics professor at Truman
State University (1989-2004), visiting professor at the University of North
Carolina (1996-97), and research fellow at Oxford University (1994). He is
also the former chief planning officer at the World Bank's Agricultural
Development Program in northern Nigeria. His scholarly works have appeared
in academic and non-academic journals all over the world, and he is general
editor of African Economic Development. An award-winning educator, he was
recognized as the Most Outstanding Black Missourian of the Year in 2003. He
has served as president of the African Finance and Economics Association of
North America (1999-2001) and editor of the Journal of African Finance and
Economic Development (1998-2002).
Sunny Nyemah is managing consultant at George Edward Consulting, where he
directs the assurance and compliance operations. He is also an adjunct
faculty member at Metropolitan State University, Minnesota. In addition, he
sits on the board of African American Family Services, the Pan African
Chamber of Commerce, and Liberia Environmental Watch. He is a member of the
Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association
of Corporate Directors, the International Compliance Association, and the
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Association, and is a Certified Internal
Auditor, a Certified Investment and Derivative Auditor, a Certified
International Project Manager, a fellow of the American Academy of Project
Management, and a graduate of the Real Estate Institute (GRI). He holds
Series 6 and 63 Licensures of the National Association of Securities
Dealers. Prior to joining George Edward Consulting, Mr. Nyemah was a senior
director at Global Equity Lending, an emerging lender with more than $500
million in revenue, based in Suwannee, Georgia, where he was responsible
for building a $5 million monthly pipeline of residential loans and for
supervising more than 200 associates. In addition to his investment and
financing background, Mr. Nyemah has worked at Robert Half as a management
consultant, providing financial management consultancy to such companies as
Norwest Bank (Wells Fargo), Aegon-USA, CIMA Labs, and Renewal by Anderson
(Anderson Windows). Mr. Nyemah holds a master's degree from the University
of St. Thomas graduate program in software engineering, in Minnesota, and
is a prospective graduate of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, California
(LL.M. program in international public law and finance).
Sunday Abogonye Ochoche holds a B.A. (1977) in philosophy from the
University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees in
peace studies from the University of Bradford. Dr. Ochoche was
SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Individual Fellow to the Institute of
Development Studies, University of Sussex. He was also post-doctoral fellow
of the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation in International Peace and Security
Studies at the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security
Studies, University of Pittsburgh, and before that taught political science
at the University of Jos, Nigeria. Subsequently, he joined the Nigerian War
College as Deputy Director, Military Strategy. Later he became director of
research. He was appointed the first Director General/CEO of the Institute
for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Presidency, Abuja, Nigeria, in which
capacity he also served as adviser to the president on conflict management
in Africa. He is currently Senior Political Affairs Officer, UN Integrated
Office, in Sierra Leone. Dr. Ochoche was a member of the national committee
that drafted Nigerias Defence Policy in 1997. In September 2002 he headed a
four-nation ECOWAS committee to investigate the matter between
Guinea-Bissau and Gambia. He was also a member of several Nigerian
delegations to the UN General Assembly and AU summits. He is a fellow of
War College, Nigeria.
Ozonnia Ojielo is Senior Peace and Development Advisor to the UN Resident
and Humanitarian Coordinator in Kenya, as well as Chief, Peace Building and
Conflict Prevention, UNDP Kenya. In his prior position, he was senior
governance adviser and head of the Governance Program at UNDP, Ghana.
Previously, he was chief of operations and subsequently officer-in-charge
at the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, during which
period he supervised the statement taking, research, investigations, and
report-writing work of the commission. Prior to that, he was a human-rights
lawyer (1990-2002), academic (at the Enugu State University of Science and
Technology, Enugu, Nigeria, 1997-20001), and president of the research and
advocacy NGO, Centre for Peace in Africa, in Lagos, Nigeria (1993-2002). He
was a technical adviser to the Malawi Human Rights Commission (1999-2001),
adviser on alternative dispute resolution to the maritime industry in
Nigeria, and president and fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators
and Conciliators of Nigeria (2000-2005). He is also a fellow of the Society
for Peace Studies and Practice, Nigeria, and of the 21st Century Trust,
London. He is the author of two books-Alternative Dispute Resolution
(Lagos: CPA Books, 2001), and Managing Organizational Disputes (Lagos: CPA
Books, 2002)-and editor of a third, Rethinking Peace and Security in Africa
(Lagos: CPA Books, 2002). Ozonnia holds a Ph.D. in peace and conflict
studies from the University of Ibadan; a B.A. and M.A. in history from the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka; an LL.B. from the Anambra State University
of Science and Technology, Awka, Nigeria; and an M.B.A. in strategic
management from the Paris Graduate School of Management, Paris. He has also
attended professional courses in conflict transformation (Eastern Mennonite
University, Virginia), conflict research (University of Uppsala, Sweden),
international conflict resolution (Austrian Study Centre for Conflict
Resolution/European Peace University, Stadschlaining), and conflict
management and election observation (Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa,
Italy).
H.E. Darren Schemmer, High Commissioner of Canada to Ghana and Ambassador
to Togo (BW.Ed. [Social Sciences], University of Alberta, 1982; M.B.A.,
Royal Roads University, 2002), joined the Canadian International
Development Agency in 1989 as a development officer with the Andes Program,
Americas Branch. He has since served abroad in Tegucigalpa, Washington, and
Cairo. At CIDA headquarters he has served as Senior Departmental Assistant
to the Minister for International Cooperation; Director General, Policy,
Planning and Management; and Director General, Haiti, Cuba, and Dominican
Republic.
Miran G. Ternamian is a former research officer at the Centre for
International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario. Mr. Ternamian's
interests include Africa's economic, political, and security development,
social justice as a means to peacebuilding, and environmentally sustainable
economic development policies. He holds an honours B.A. from McMaster
University and an M.B.A. in strategic management from Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo, Ontario. Prior to joining CIGI, he worked in Ottawa
with the Bilateral Market Access Division of the Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade. As a trade policy officer, Mr. Ternamian
assessed Canadian industry interests, export opportunities, and import
sensitivities with key trading partners.
Oren E. Whyche-Shaw has over the past twenty years held senior positions in
the private sector, the not-for-profit sectors, and the public sector. She
has worked in developing and emerging-market environments and in North and
Sub-Saharan African countries advising on strategies to stimulate the
growth of African capital markets and the private sector. Ms. Whyche has
held positions at J.P. Morgan, Citibank, R.J. Reynolds Industries, Owens
Corning, the African Development Bank, Technosesrve, Inc., and the U.S.
Treasury. She has served on the boards of the Planned Parenthood
Federation, the African Venture Capital Association, the African
Export-Import Bank, and Plan USA. She received a B.Sc. in mathematics and
French from Capital University (Columbus, Ohio) and an M.B.A. from the
Columbia University School of Business.
Gilles Olakounle Yabi is a senior analyst of the West Africa Project
(Dakar) with the International Crisis Group at the time of writing. He
joined the International Crisis Groups West Africa office in September 2004
and conducts research on francophone West Africa. Dr. Yabi is responsible
for the research and writing of the policy reports and briefings published
by the International Crisis Group on the conflicts and political crises in
Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea. He also contributed to the West Africa Project's
research activities on other countries and issues in West Africa. Prior to
joining Crisis Group, he completed a doctoral thesis in economics on the
determinants of foreign direct investments and their impact on the economic
growth in developing countries. He holds his Ph.D. and a postgraduate
degree in development economics from the Centre of Studies and Research on
International Development of the University of Clermont-Ferrand and a
master's degree in international economics from Sorbonne University in
Paris. He has also worked as a journalist for the Paris-based newsmagazine
Jeune Afrique.