Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; The Road to the Future Runs Through the Past: The Pre-Colonial Period; Drift, Decline, and the Establishment of a Patrimonial State; Diamonds Arent Forever, are they?; The Coming of the Terror; Child Soldiers, Hunters, and Mercenaries: The Widening Conflagration; The Perils of Peacekeeping and Peacemaking; Dealing with the Aftermath: The Quest for Justice; The Global Dimensions of an African Civil Conflict.