Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies In West Africa

Author : Brandon D. Lundy,Jesse J. Benjamin,Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739192597

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Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa by Brandon D. Lundy,Jesse J. Benjamin,Joseph Kingsley Adjei Pdf

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa:Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The book critically evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies with a view to determining their effectiveness in the context of the societies’ history and culture, and the relevance and adaptability of these strategies in contemporary contexts. This book takes a scholarly approach, avoiding romanticizing or idealizing indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It advocates a set of mechanisms by which the best elements of indigenous knowledge and skills in conflict management may be deployed to settle contemporary disputes, and made portable for adoption and adaptation by other complex societies in the region and beyond.

Author : Akanmu G. Adebayo,Jesse J. Benjamin,Brandon D. Lundy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739188057

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Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies by Akanmu G. Adebayo,Jesse J. Benjamin,Brandon D. Lundy Pdf

We know that since the end of the Cold War, conflicts in non-Western countries have been frequent, frequently violent, largely intra-state, and protracted. But what do we know about conflict management and resolution strategies in these societies? Have the dominant Western approaches been transplantable, suitable, effective, durable, and sustainable? Would conflicts in non-Western societies be better handled by the adaptation and adoption of customary, traditional, or localized mechanisms of mitigation? These and similar questions have engaged the attention of scholars and policy-makers. Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives is offered as a global compendium on indigenous conflict management strategies. It presents diverse perspectives on the subject. Fully aware of the tendency in the literature to over-generalize, over-romanticize, and over-criticize the localized and customary mechanisms, the book takes a slightly different approach. It presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of the successful integration of the indigenous and Western strategies in the contemporary period. The main features, strengths, challenges, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems are also presented.

Author : Francis M. Deng,Sadikiel Kimaro,Terrence Lyons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815719736

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Sovereignty as Responsibility by Francis M. Deng,Sadikiel Kimaro,Terrence Lyons Pdf

The authors assert that sovereignty can no longer be seen as a protection against interference, but as a charge of responsibility where the state is accountable to both domestic and external constituencies. In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of conflict, leaving the victims with no assistance. This book shows how that responsibility can be exercised by states over their own population, and by other states in assistance to their fellow sovereigns. Sovereignty as Responsibility presents a framework that should guide both national governments and the international community in discharging their respective responsibilities. Broad principles are developed by examining identity as a potential source of conflict, governance as a matter of managing conflict, and economics as a policy field for deterring conflict. Considering conflict management, political stability, economic development, and social welfare as functions of governance, the authors develop strategies, guidelines, and roles for its responsible exercise. Some African governments, such as South Africa in the 1990s and Ghana since 1980, have demonstrated impressive gains against these standards, while others, such as Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sudan, have failed. Opportunities for making sovereignty more responsible and improving the management of conflicts are examined at the regional and international levels. The lessons from the mixed successes of regional conflict management actions, such as the West African intervention in Liberia, the East African mediation in Sudan, and international efforts to urge talks to end the conflict in Angola, indicate friends and neighbors outside the state in conflict have important roles to play in increasing sovereign responsibility. Approaching conflict management from the perspective of the responsibilities of sovereignt

Author : Hakeem B. Harunah,O. B. C. Nwolise,Dayo Oluyemi-Kusa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110478497

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A Guide to Peace Education and Peace-promotion Strategies in Africa: The Nigerian approach by Hakeem B. Harunah,O. B. C. Nwolise,Dayo Oluyemi-Kusa Pdf

Author : Pamela Aall,Chester A. Crocker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781928096429

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The Fabric of Peace in Africa by Pamela Aall,Chester A. Crocker Pdf

Africa has experienced dozens of conflicts over a variety of issues during the past two decades. Responding to these conflicts requires concerted action to manage the crises – the violence, the political discord, and the humanitarian consequences of prolonged fighting. It is also necessary to address the long-term social and economic impacts of conflict, to rebuild communities, societies and states that have been torn apart. To accomplish this requires the involvement of institutions and groups rarely considered in formal official African conflict management activities: schools, universities, religious institutions, media, commercial enterprises, legal institutions, civil society groups, youth, women and migrants. These groups and organizations have an important role to play in building a sense of identity, fairness, shared norms and cohesion between state and society – all critical components of the fabric of peace and security in Africa. This volume brings together leading experts from Africa, Europe and North America to examine these critical social institutions and groups, and consider how they can either improve or impede peaceful conflict resolution. The overarching questions that are explored by the authors are: What constitutes social cohesion and resilience in the face of conflict? What are the threats to cohesion and resilience? And how can the positive elements be fostered and by whom? The second of two volumes on African conflict management capacity by the editors, The Fabric of Peace in Africa: Looking beyond the State opens new doors of understanding for students, scholars and practitioners focused on strengthening peace in Africa; the first volume, Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of change, focused on the role of mediation and peacekeeping in managing violence and political crises.

Author : Akanmu G. Adebayo,Jesse J. Benjamin,Brandon D. Lundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498550428

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Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies by Akanmu G. Adebayo,Jesse J. Benjamin,Brandon D. Lundy Pdf

This book presents a variety of traditional conflict management approaches as well as several cases of successful and unsuccessful integrations of indigenous and Western strategies. As it explores these methods, the book also analyzes the central characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of a multitude of indigenous systems from around the globe.

Author : Osita Agbu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9782869781931

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West Africa's Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace-Building by Osita Agbu Pdf

This monograph highlights the necessity for taking preventive measures in the form of peace-building as a sustainable and long-term solution to conflicts in West Africa, with a special focus on the Mano River Union countries. Apart from the Mano River Union countries, efforts at resolving other conflicts in say, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, C'te d'Ivoire and Nigeria, have suffered from a lack of attention on the post-conflict imperatives of building peace in order to ensure that sustainable peace is achieved. Given the often intractable and inter-related nature of conflicts in this region, it argues for the need to revisit the existing mechanisms of conflict resolution in the sub-region with a view to canvassing a stronger case for stakeholders towards adopting the peace-building strategy as a more practical and sustainable way of avoiding wars in the sub-region. Peace-building in consonance with its infrastructure is a more sustainable approach to ensuring regional peace and stability and, therefore, ensuring development for the peoples of West Africa. Dr Osita Agbu is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos. His areas of specialization include Peace and Conflict studies, Governance and Democratization and Technology and Development. He was until recently, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan.

Author : Sunday A. Ochoche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110479610

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ECOWAS in Conflict Prevention and Management in West Africa by Sunday A. Ochoche Pdf

Author : Terrence Lyons,Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134068500

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Conflict Management and African Politics by Terrence Lyons,Gilbert M. Khadiagala Pdf

This book builds on the overarching theme of conflict management to reflect on negotiations, mediation, and conflict resolution in Africa.

Author : Ogechi Adeola
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839090356

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Indigenous African Enterprise by Ogechi Adeola Pdf

This book examines an indigenous Africa-centric business model practised by the Igbos of south-eastern Nigeria for decades. The unique framework and rules of operation, collectively referred to as the Igbo-Traditional Business School (I-TBS) in this book, is underpinned by the ‘Igba-boi’ apprenticeship.

Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1555878768

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Traditional Cures for Modern Conflicts by I. William Zartman Pdf

This text identifies contributions of traditional mechanisms for conflict management in Africa and elsewhere. With African conflicts eluding efforts to be controlled, this work is guided by the question: can traditional methods yield insights and approaches that might help end the violence?

Author : John M. Kabia
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754674444

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Humanitarian Intervention and Conflict Resolution in West Africa by John M. Kabia Pdf

Taking the empirical case of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), this volume locates the peacekeeping operations of ECOWAS within an expanded post-Cold War conceptualization of humanitarian intervention. It examines the organization's capacity to protect civilians at risk in civil conflicts and to facilitate the processes of peacemaking and post-war peace-building.

Author : I. William Zartman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UOM:39076001744429

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Governance as Conflict Management by I. William Zartman Pdf

In examining the efforts of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria to manage their conflicts, this book provides a greater understanding of governance and conflict management that is applicable well beyond the African continent.

Author : Kwesi Aning,M Anne Brown,Volker Boege,Charles T Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317330851

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Exploring Peace Formation by Kwesi Aning,M Anne Brown,Volker Boege,Charles T Hunt Pdf

This volume examines the dynamics of socio-political order in post-colonial states across the Pacific Islands region and West Africa in order to elaborate on the processes and practices of peace formation. Drawing on field research and engaging with post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in post-colonial states. The chapters analyse how different types of actors and institutions involved in peace formation engage in and are interpenetrated by a host of relations in the local arena, making ‘the local’ contested ground on which different discourses and praxes of peace, security and justice coexist and overlap. In the course of interactions, new and different forms of socio-political order emerge which are far from being captured through the familiar notions of a liberal peace and a Weberian ideal-type state. Rather, this volume investigates how (dis)order emerges as a result of interdependence among agents, thus laying open the fundamentally relational character of peace formation. This innovative relational, liminal and integrative understanding of peace formation has far-reaching consequences for internationally supported peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, peace studies, security studies, governance, development and IR.

Author : Winnifred Bedigen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000865813

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Indigenous Peacebuilding in South Sudan by Winnifred Bedigen Pdf

This book explores the indigenous peace cultures of the major ethnic groups in South Sudan (Dinka, Nuer, Anuak and Acholi) and analyses their contribution to resolving the civil war. The book utilises qualitative narrative inquiry ethnographic methods to explore the indigenous institutions and customs (customary laws, beliefs and practices) employed in resolving ethnic conflicts and argues for their application in civil war resolution. This book contributes to the decolonial literature/knowledge by discussing the subtle norms, the role of youth, women, and elders, the concepts of resilience and proximity, and their significance in peacebuilding. The book shows that for sustainable peace to happen, subtle roles and disputants' indigenous knowledge should be part of national peace negotiation strategies. This book will interest NGOs, students and scholars of indigenous knowledge, women, youth, conflict and peacebuilding, African Studies and Development in the Horn of Africa and sub-Sahara regions.