Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa
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 sho
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Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa
Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mediel Hove Geoff Harris •
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Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Editors Mediel Hove War, Peace and Strategic Studies University of Zimbabwe Harare, Zimbabwe
Geoff Harris International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON) Durban University of Technology Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
More on this book is at: http://afes-press-books.de/html/SA_04.htm ISBN 978-3-030-14693-1 ISBN 978-3-030-14694-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14694-8
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Acknowledgements
We are enormously grateful to those who have taught us peace by the way which they have lived and by the insights they have passed on to us. These include our parents, our academic mentors and our students. In particular, this book has benefitted from the insightful comments of Matt Meyer and Andries Odendaal, and the wise and patient guidance of Hans Günter Brauch. Mediel Hove Geoff Harris
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Introduction
Surprisingly, not a great deal has been written on nonviolence in sub-Saharan Africa. Two of the three books of which we are aware (Sutherland/Meyer 2000; Bethlehem/ Ginio 2007) focus on its application by independence movements, mostly during the 1960s. In the preface to his short book, George-Williams (2006) claims that it ‘is the first serious analysis and documentation of … nonviolent conflict transformation in Africa spanning the colonial and postcolonial periods’. It includes three examples
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