Peace Education For Violence Prevention In Fragile African Societies

Author : Maphosa, Sylvester B.,Keasley, Alphonse
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798304962

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Peace Education for Violence Prevention in Fragile African Societies by Maphosa, Sylvester B.,Keasley, Alphonse Pdf

Though conflicts among (African) nations diminished at the end of the last millennium, the need for peace remains a perennial concern for African citizens within their communities and countries. Once again, Maphosa and Keasley have engaged a collection of scholar practitioners to address the query ‘What’s Going to Make a Difference in Contemporary Peace Education around Africa?’ The contributing authors draw from daily headlines as well as African literature to unearth twenty-first century quandaries with which educators in formal and informal contexts are called upon to grapple. The ‘What’s Going to Make a Difference’ authors offer insights to educators, peace education practitioners and parents for everyday living. The authors probe the wisdom of the recent and ancient past and bring forth pearls for contemporary moments. All in discerning effort to respond to the guiding question, the editors and their contributing colleagues deliver a compelling set of revelations for Making a Difference in Peace Education for African and world citizens.

Author : Singh, Swaranjit,Erbe, Nancy D.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799840732

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Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society by Singh, Swaranjit,Erbe, Nancy D. Pdf

In recent years, different regions of the world have been unfortunately experiencing an increase in violent acts within various communities. For example, the United States has seen an emergence of severe violence within schools over the past two decades. This tragic phenomenon is causing administrators and practitioners to rethink teaching techniques and implement concepts of violence prevention within schools and other social organizations. Preventing and Reducing Violence in Schools and Society is a collection of innovative research on the evolution and implementation of nonviolence concepts within social settings in order to repent oppression and violence among global communities. The book explores the effective diffusion of violence through masterful negotiation and mediation skills as well as mentoring, counseling, and related processes. While highlighting topics including nonviolent teaching, active shooter training, and LGBT-phobia, this book is ideally designed for UN, governments and their heads, politicians, NGOs, communities riddled with gang and other violence, schools, educational leaders, social organizations, community leaders, teachers, preachers, religious leaders, mediators, peace activists, law enforcement, researchers, and students seeking current research on contemporary nonviolence techniques to facilitate change in schools and other societal environments.

Author : Hakeem B. Harunah,O. B. C. Nwolise,Dayo Oluyemi-Kusa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Geoff Harris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802207798

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The Elgar Companion to War, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa by Geoff Harris Pdf

This dynamic Companion brings together esteemed academics from across the globe to provide ten distinct approaches to peacebuilding in Africa. With a timely and forward-thinking approach to war and conflict, the book focuses on the utilisation of traditional African dialogue in contemporary peacebuilding, developing infrastructures, and education for peace with a transformative agenda.

Author : Egon Spiegel,George Mutalemwa,Cheng Liu,Lester R. Kurtz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030924744

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Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa by Egon Spiegel,George Mutalemwa,Cheng Liu,Lester R. Kurtz Pdf

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse – theoretical and practical – efforts to achieve peace. Following an essential review of several real-world conflict contexts on the African continent and attempts to come to terms with them critically as a first step, the book explores the lessons learned to date with regard to peace studies in Africa.

Author : Ernest E. Uwazie
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739106694

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Conflict Resolution and Peace Education in Africa by Ernest E. Uwazie Pdf

Africa today suffers from too much political unrest and violent conflict. The contributors to this edited collection recognize a missing link in efforts to foster democracy, and with it political stability and peace, in Africa's developing countries: Democracy can be sustained only where effective means for resolving citizens' disputes exist both within and outside the formal legal system. The writers whose articles appear here--scholars, practitioners, and peace advocates--present their varied knowledge of conflict and war in Africa and strategies for introducing and implementing mediation, from Sierra Leone to South Africa. This volume is a model exchange of insights and ideas in the important field of conflict resolution as applied to Africa.

Author : William G. Moseley,Kefa M. Otiso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429535420

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Debating African Issues by William G. Moseley,Kefa M. Otiso Pdf

This debate style textbook allows students to explore diverse, well-founded views on controversial African issues, pushing them to go beyond superficial interpretations and complicate and ground their understanding of the continent. From the positive images in the film Black Panther, to the derogatory remarks of former American President Donald Trump, the African continent often figures prominently in the collective, global imagination. This interdisciplinary collection covers 20 enduring and contemporary debates across a broad range of subjects affecting Africa, from development and health to agriculture, climate change, and urbanization. Each chapter has a pro and con view penned by a leading expert on the topic in an accessible and engaging style. These contrasting views on each issue are framed by an introduction that helps the student contextualize the debate and draw on further resources. Moreover, they enable readers to deepen their understanding of the topic, develop a more nuanced perspective, and foster classroom debates. This book is an excellent resource for Africa related courses across a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields including African studies, anthropology, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international studies, political science and public health.

Author : Mediel Hove,Geoff Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030146948

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Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa by Mediel Hove,Geoff Harris Pdf

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.

Author : Jean-Jacques Purusi Sadiki
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782296253858

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Women, peace and conflicts in traditional African society by Jean-Jacques Purusi Sadiki Pdf

Africa remains the region in the world where conflicts and massive violations of human rights, and in particular violence against women, have remained the highest world-wide, since the Second World War. This book analyses the strength and the importance of women in the corridors of power and their role in mechanisms for conflict resolution, prevention and transformation in the past, particularly in the Great Lakes region before the arrival of Europeans on the continent.

Author : Clara Ramírez-Barat,Martina Schulze
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Democracy and education
ISBN : 9783737008372

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Transitional Justice and Education by Clara Ramírez-Barat,Martina Schulze Pdf

This volume addresses the role and importance of education for processes of transitional justice. In the aftermath of conflict and mass violence, education has been one of the tools with which societies have sought to achieve positive transformation. While education has the potential to trigger, maintain, and exacerbate conflict, it has also been designed to promote a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the past and to advance reconciliation, peacebuilding, and prevention. The original contributions in the book reflect on lessons learned from education policies of the past in post-conflict societies and seek innovative, sustainable, and context-sensitive grassroots approaches, designed to advocate critical thinking, values of inclusion and tolerance, and ultimately a culture of peace.

Author : Ian Harris
Publisher : IAP
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623963514

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Peace Education from the Grassroots by Ian Harris Pdf

Historians often ignore the day-to-day struggles of ordinary people to improve their lives. They tend to focus on the accomplishments of illustrious leaders. Peace Education from the Grassroots tells the stories of concerned citizens, teachers, and grassroots peace activists who have struggled to counteract high levels of violence by teaching about the sources for violence and strategies for peace. The stories told here come from the grass roots meaning the educators are close to the forms of violence they are addressing. This collection of essays tells how citizens at the grassroots level developed peace education initiatives in thirteen different nations (Belgium, Canada, El Salvador, Germany, India, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Uganda, and the United States). A fourteenth article describes the efforts of the International Red Cross to implement a human rights curriculum to teachers on the ground in the Balkans, Iran, Senegal, and the United Sates. These chapters describe a variety of schools, colleges, peace movement organizations, community-based organizations, and international nongovernmental organizations engaged in peace education.

Author : Monisha Bajaj,Maria Hantzopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474233705

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Peace Education by Monisha Bajaj,Maria Hantzopoulos Pdf

'Honorable Mention' 2017 PROSE Award - Education Practice Bringing together the voices of scholars and practitioners on challenges and possibilities of implementing peace education in diverse global sites, this book addresses key questions for students seeking to deepen their understanding of the field. The book not only highlights ground-breaking and rich qualitative studies from around the globe, but also analyses the limits and possibilities of peace education in diverse contexts of conflict and post-conflict societies. Contributing authors address how educators and learners can make meaning of international peace education efforts, how various forms of peace and violence interact in and around schools, and how the field of peace education has evolved and grown over the past four decades.

Author : Norman Mlambo
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781909112902

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Violent Conflicts, Fragile Peace by Norman Mlambo Pdf

The African continent has experienced too many violent conflicts leading to much loss of life, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of productive socio-economic activity, displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and the diversion of scarce resources towards arms procurement. It is clear to all that for sustainable development of the African continent, it is important that policy makers and all levels of society understand Africa's security challenges so that all may work towards sustainable peace and security for the African continent. This book is a collection of papers, most of them written for the journal African Renaissance, by prominent African scholars and practitioners who seek to understand the various causes of African conflicts, the many forms and different dimensions that these conflicts have taken, their devastating effects and the challenges for sustainable peace and security on the African continent. The book is proudly blessed by the inclusion (with permission) of the report of the outgoing United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan entitled "e;The Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa"e;. The book is aimed at policy makers, academics, students, and for all who are interested in peace, security and sustainable development on the African continent.

Author : Borislava Manojlovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319571713

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Education for Sustainable Peace and Conflict Resilient Communities by Borislava Manojlovic Pdf

This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict. It does so by examining the agency of conflict-resilient communities and the dynamic processes of their interactions with larger societal structure. Although education is seen as a human right, the design of education policies, schooling models and curricula has primarily been the prerogative of elites, be they governments, academics or international actors. This book argues for a different approach to education, contending for more inclusivity and open deliberation in modeling education frameworks. Drawing on case studies and interviews with practitioners, scholars, activists, and policymakers, it applies the lenses of conflict resolution to a variety of education issues within fragile societies.

Author : Osita Agbu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,8 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.