Chapter 6 VIOLENCE AND STATE (RE)FORMATION IN THE AFRICAN CONTEXT: GLOBAL AND LOCAL ASPECTS OF CRISIS AND CHANGE*

Studies of conflict and violence in contemporary Africa or elsewhere are largely dominated by political science and macro-sociological approaches, often based on théories of resource compétition (Markakis 1998; Homer-Dixon 1999) and the production of inequality (Tilly 1998). However, anthropological perspectives are also gaining ground and niake salien