Research Catalog

Title

Building peace from within / edited by Sylvester B. Maphosa, Laura DeLuca and Alphonse Keasley.

Publication

Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Maphosa, Sylvester Bongani
• DeLuca, Laura, 1963-
• Keasley, Alphonse
• Africa Institute of South Africa, publisher.

Description

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book seeks to examine how successful models of building 'peace from within' in the African context function. It draws emerging lessons to provide critical recommendations on policy, practice and academia - our primary audience. While there are numerous examples of failures of conflict resolution in Africa, shown by intractable conflict axes, less attention is paid to successes. While acknowledging the challenges that exist, this edited volume provides positive examples of building peace from within in fragile contexts through many forms of initiatives and actions at different levels: community-based (through individual and/or collective local peace initiatives), government (through ministries and/or departments), and regional (through external and/or multilateral infrastructure for peace). As a guiding principle the notion of building peace from within draws from the idea of community regeneration, which describes voluntary and peaceful activities of grassroots actors that reflect their broader interests of building peaceful communities and existence.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Peace-building > Africa
• Conflict management > Africa
• Security, International > Africa
• Restorative justice > Africa
• Conflict management
• Peace-building
• Restorative justice
• Security, International
• Paix > Afrique
• Gestion des conflits > Afrique
• Sécurité internationale > Afrique
• Réparations de guerre > Afrique
• Africa

Note

• "An examination of community-based peacebuliding and transitions in Africa"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Building peace from within: an introduction / Sylvester B. Maphosa and Alphonse Keasley -- Capacity-buidling for sustainable peacebuilding in Africa / Tony Karbo -- Let us talk: African contributions to peacebuilding / John Paul Lederach and Angela Lederach -- Healing and integrated development as part of peacebuilding in post-conflict areas: a social capital lens / Yvonne Sliep -- Does restorative justice work? An evaluation of the restorative justice programmes of Phoenix Zululand / Geoff Harris -- Reintegration of child soldiers: a case of southern Sudan / Pamela Machakanja -- An African odyssey: from child soldiering to peacemaker / Morris Matadi, Alphonse Keasley, and Laura DeLuca -- Addressing ethno-political conflicts through the concept of Abanyarwanda: a case of 'ethnic amnesia' in Rwanda? / Martha Mutisi -- The politics of alternative justice in post-genocide Rwanda: assessing the Gacaca community justice system / Nicasius Achu Check -- Conflict resolution, land disputes and peacebuilding in northern Tanzania: the role of customary institutions / Mara Goldman, Makko Sinandei and Laura DeLuca -- The role of women in grassroots peacebuidling in Kenya / Karambu Ringera -- Women's involvement in peace and security: the case of the SANDF / Ntsiki Memela-Motumi -- Elections by contract: a covenant of peace in African communities / Ajume Wingo -- Elections and community regeneration: implications for democracy and peacebuilding in the DRC / Sylvester Bongani Maphosa -- Peacebuilding in South Africa: cross-cultural implications / Alphonse Keasley -- Social media and civil society in the Tunisian Revolution: implications for democracy and peacebuilding / Stephen Juan King -- Conclusion: peace from within / The Editors.

ISBN

• 9780798304405 (paperback)
• 0798304405 (paperback)

OCLC

• 870517972
• SCSB-12879600

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library