This book explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It exa

Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a s

Nine contributors offer pioneering work on the scope and nature of electoral violence in Africa; investigate the forms electoral violence takes; and analyze the

An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.