Overview
- First book documenting the experience and potential of nonviolence in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa
- Persuasive case for the development of various peace infrastructures in order to make peace sustainable
- Explains how strategic planning can be utilised, both to bring about change and to institutionalise it
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Cultures of violence are characteristic of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and attempts to move towards cultures of peace have often proved difficult and ineffectual. And yet, the wide variations in levels of violence within and between countries show that it is not inevitable; rather, it is the result of choices made at individual, community and societal levels. This book examines the potential of peace infrastructures as vehicles to strengthen and spread progress towards cultures of peace.
Peace infrastructures vary hugely in sophistication and level. The examples examined in this book range from tiny structures which help resolve conflicts between individuals and within community organisations, peace committees which serve local communities, peace education and peace club programmes in schools, mediation mechanisms to prevent election violence and to ministries of peace to coordinate government and non-government efforts in peacemaking and peacebuilding. The overall finding is that the development of peace infrastructures at all levels has great potential to build cultures of peace.
1. It is the only book available which documents the experience and potential of nonviolence in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa.
2. It makes a persuasive case for the development of various peace infrastructures in order to make peace sustainable.
3. It explains how strategic planning can be utilised, both to bring about change and to institutionalise it.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Case for Nonviolence
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Nonviolent Initiatives
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Future Challenges
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa
Editors: Mediel Hove, Geoff Harris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14694-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14693-1Published: 01 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14696-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14694-8Published: 14 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 298
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Peace Studies, Development Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, African Politics