Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Justice Richard Goldstone -- Introduction / Elizabeth Sidiropoulos -- Address delivered at Kosovo Seminar / Nelson Mandela --Humanitarian intervention : a 21st century dilemma? / Leslie Gumbi --Preventing wars within states : what can intergovernmental organisations do in Africa? / Albrecht Schnabel -- The role of subregional and regional organisations in preventing African conflicts / Betsie Smith -- Containment or change? : Civil society's role in conflict prevention in Africa / Michelle Parlevliet -- The role of mass communications in preventing conflict / George William Lugalambi -- Humanitarian intervention and the changing role of the UN / Kapil Kak --

The limits to intervention / Mark Bowden -- Operation allied force : a model for the future? / Rob de Wijk -- Applied lessons from Kosovo / Victor Chernomyrdin -- The Democratic Republic of Congo : a humanitarian catastrophe ignored? / Martin R. Rupiya -- Contemporary international law and policy responses to separatist movements / Diane F. Orentlicher -- New limits to sovereignty : lessons of the Pinochet and Kosovo cases / Jorge Heine -- Self-determination and the future of the African state / Jeffrey Herbst -- Limits to self-determination in the Great Lakes Region / Henry Onoria -- Can lessons learned migrate from Kosovo to Africa? : comparing the evaluations of two refugee crises / Jonathan Klaaren -- The role of civil society in reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation in Africa / Hussein Solomon -- West African reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction : who does the work? / Joseph Chukwuma Otteh -- Glossary.