TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bentley, Kristina A.
TI  - An African peace process: Mandela, South Africa, and Burundi
SN  - 9780796920904
U1  - 27.1/72/0967572BEN 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cape Town
PB  - HSRC Press
KW  - Mandela, Nelson, 1918-, Peace-building-Burundi. Peacekeeping forces-Burundi. Burundi-Ethnic relations-Political aspects. South Africa-Relations-Burundi. Burundi-Relations-South Africa
N1  - Commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and compiled by the Democracy and Governance Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council."--T.p. verso
N2  - From independence in 1962, Burundi has been wracked by divisions between the Tutsi ruling minority and the Hutu majority. in 1993, a civil war erupted during the course of which over 300,000 people have died and many thousands more have taken refuge in neighbouring countries. A small country occupying a strategic location in the unstable Great Lakes region of Africa, Burundi's own convulsions have been intimately entangled with deadly conflicts in the neighbouring countries of Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kristina Bentley and Roger Southall outline the origins and nature of the conflict in Burundi, discuss the problems of establishing democracy in a region where ethnic conflict has occasioned genocide, trace and the peace process in detail, and assess the prospects for the future. Their work seeks to illuminate the role played by South Africa since 1999 in Burundi's attempted transition to peace and democracy
ER  -