Ubuntu -journal of Conflict Transformation Vol 1 Nos1-2 2012

Publisher Marketing: Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict Transformation is a biannual Journal of the Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Topics in this issue include: Towards Deepening Conflict Transformation and Peace-building. Footsteps in History, Colonial Origins of African Conflicts: an insight from the Nigeria/Cameroon Border Conflict. How African Civil Wars Hibernate: The Warring Communities of the Senegal / Guinea Bissau Borderlands in the face of the Casamance Forgotten Civil War and the Bissau-Guinean State failure. Managing Violent Conflicts over Marginality from Below: the role of Non-state Actors in the Management of the Niger Delta Conflict in Nigeria. Post-conflict Reconstruction and the Resurgence of 'Resolved' TerritorialConflicts: Examining the DRC Peace Process. Strengthening Ties among Landlocked Countries in Eastern Africa: Making Prisoner's Dilemma a Strategy of Collaboration. Age-long Land Conflicts in Nigeria: A Case for Traditional Peacemaking Mechanisms Social Protection, Labour Markets and the Economic Reconfiguration of Post-Conflict Northern Uganda. Devolution - The 'Ticklish' Subject: The 'Northern Problem' and the National Question in Zimbabwe. The Monarchy, Land Contests and Conflict in Post-Colonial Swaziland. Re-Engineering the Ethics of Land, Space and Territorial Acquisition as Strategies for Resolving Nigerian Civil Conflicts