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Building Peace Through Local Peace Committees: African Experiences

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There is increasing interest in the prevention and mitigation of violent conflict by community-based formations or ‘grassroots institutions’, which include customary courts and also new formations such as local peace committees (LPCs) of various kinds. Using examples from Africa and other parts of the world, this chapter finds that such community-based formations have had considerable success in dealing with inter-personal conflicts within communities and also conflicts between communities. However, in Zimbabwe, such community-based formations have not been fully embraced.

Norman Chivasa, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; e-mail: normanchivasa@gmail.com.

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    Norman Chivasa

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  1. War, Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Mediel Hove

  2. International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON), Durban University of Technology, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Geoff Harris

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Chivasa, N. (2019). Building Peace Through Local Peace Committees: African Experiences. In: Hove, M., Harris, G. (eds) Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14694-8_7

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