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Book Review: Peace and conflict in Africa

African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2010

Many interpretations of peace and conflict in Africa are too simplistic. The book under review, therefore, seeks to deviate from those interpretations and provide a more detailed perspective. A collection of essays edited by David J. Francis, the book is touted as an introduction text to key themes with regard to peace and conflict in Africa. The book aims, firstly, to introduce the reader to the concepts, debates and issues in peace and conflict in Africa, and, secondly, to stress the importance of indigenous African approaches to peacebuilding. Thus, the book is divided into two parts. The first part has seven chapters and deals mostly with concepts and the discourse of peace and conflict in Africa. Part two has five chapters and deals with issues in peace and conflict. The first chapter is an introduction to the context of peace and conflict. The author presents an overview of the western media's representation of Africa, reviews selected literature on conflicts, and appreciates Africa's potential and brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk

Tony Karbo and Kudrat Virk (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa

Czech Journal of International Relations

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-contributing countries. In so doing, it revisits the late Ali Mazrui’s concept of Pax Africana, calling on Africans to take responsibility for peace and security on their own continent. The creation of the African Union, in 2002, was an important step towards realising this ambition, and has led to the development of a new continental architecture for more robust conflict management. But, as the volume’s authors show, the quest for Pax Africana faces challenges. Combining thematic analyses and case studies, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on peace, security, and governan...

Peace and Conflict in Africa: A Critical Appraisal of Theory and Practice

The state of peace and conflict in the African continent since independence remains a preoccupying phenomenon, with development and continuing challenges both at the domestic level and international scale. Indeed, beside the steady progress in the establishment of the African Union continental peace and security design and the promising achievements, the geopolitical map of Africa continue to bear the marks of several latent crises. There are also multiple full-blown conflicts in the face of which peace efforts are often met with opposition or simply foiled by the existence of diverse challenges at the operational level, especially for the African Union. This paper aims to ascertain the state of affairs on all issues as regard armed conflict on selected countries of Africa.

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Peace is one of the issues in Africa that needs to be rethought or revisited. When discussing peace in Africa, one has to explore the society's ontology and cosmological order, as the African concept of peace is deeply engrained in the people's culture and moral tradition. The purpose of this article is to pose a question about interventionist Western-oriented peacebuilding and why it has failed to bring durable peace to post-conflict African countries and its implications on peace dividend. The study follows the literature study method. The paper, consequently, presented the Ubuntu and Oromo peace epistemologies as a possible alternative or authentic viewpoint on the collective. This paper has outlined that peace in Africa is far more complicated than conventional discourses portray. It was established in the study that, to develop an effective response to internal conflicts, it is necessary to explore the cultural foundations and/or institutions that can serve as the basis for conflict prevention, management and resolution.

The State of Peacebuilding in Africa

2021

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Root Causes of Peacelessness and Approaches to Peace in Africa

Peace <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> Change, 2000

Conflicts are endemic in society, but what is their specific nature in Africa, and why do they deteriorate into such intense violence as negates humanity itself? This article looks at the "mainstream" theory that attempts to explain this, taking as example the UN secretary-general's recent report on the subject. The report is both partial and ideological; it seeks to hide the systemic causes of poverty and conflict in Africa. The role of the peace activist is to understand conflict in Africa from a holistic and systemic perspective. He or she must work at various levels to alleviate conflict and prevent its degeneration into violence, based on the dual strategy of partially de-linking Africa from the global system and developing tolerance towards interethnic and political differences. This approach requires a new kind of moral and political culture, and new structures of political decision-making and accountability that are locally accountable and diversified.

Analysing the concept of peace in post-conflict African countries

Fiseha Moreda, 2022

PEACE BUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION AS ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

Sahel Analyst Journal of Management Sciences, 2018

This paper examines peace building and conflict resolution as essential ingredients for sustainable development in Africa. The paper examines different facets of peace building and conflict resolution, peace, conflict and development. The paper is a content analysis and it showcases that African countries are not just a continent of wars, but it is a continent of peace; because across Africa, there are many peacemakers, such as traditional, religious, community elders and other group working quietly to solve conflict among their people. It also recommended solution to African conflict and development as follows; peace building and reconciliatory measure requires concerted and collective efforts from community groups, civil society organisations, traditional rulers and religious leaders must all play their parts in creating the structures and cultures of peace within their communities.

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