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Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
Driven by genocide, civil war, political instabilities, ethnic and pastoral hostilities, the African Great Lakes Region, primarily Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi, has been overwhelmingly defined by conflict. Kenneth Omeje, Tricia Redeker Hepner, and an international group of scholars, many from the Great Lakes region, focus on the interlocking conflicts and efforts toward peace in this multidisciplinary volume. These essays present a range of debates and perspectives on the history and politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and external sources of both persistent tension and creative peacebuilding. Taken together, the essays illustrate that no single perspective or approach can adequately capture the dynamics of conflict or offer successful strategies for sustainable peace in the region.
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Conflict and human security in Africa : Kenya in perspective
\"This edited volume looks at human security and conflict in northern Kenya and nearby areas within Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Uganda. It spells out the precise meaning and nuances of human security in today's global economy and examines the causes and effects of conflict in the region within the context of human security. It also discusses how to reduce vulnerability and enhance the human security of communities affected by regional conflict by building conflict prevention and management capacity and encouraging alternative livelihoods\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order.
* Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice
* Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed
* Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence
* Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation
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The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya: the Wajir story and its implications for state-building
In an anarchic corner of northern Kenya in the mid-1990s, a collection of local non-state actors led by a women’s market group created an umbrella movement that came to establish an impressive level of peace and security across an entire region. The Kenyan government forged a formal relationship with this group in Wajir, essentially sub-contracting out important functions of local government to local civic leaders, and using its partnership with the Wajir group as a template for similar state-sanctioned governance arrangements in other troubled border areas of the country. The Wajir story is examined in this article as an example of a “mediated state” approach to rebuilding rule of law through non-state actors in a conflict and post-conflict setting.
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Building peace through social change communication
This paper draws on the experience of conducting participatory video in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. By linking development communication to conflict transformation theory, this article offers a framework that highlights the impact that communication for social change can have in post-conflict settings through the use of participatory media. It shows how this type of media productions can contribute to re-establishing relationships and creating a shared understanding of the conflict, while building the view of an interconnected future among opposing groups. In this case study, I illustrate how a collection of participatory videos became a peacebuilding tool for the youth in the Rift Valley. Through the information gathered from the interviews with young victims and perpetrators of the Kenya Post-election Violence, I discuss how both the filming and the screening of these films have opened a dialogue between different groups and contributed to processes of social change.
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Are African diasporas development partners, peace-makers or spoilers? The case of Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria
This study assesses the role of African diasporas in development, conflict resolution and peacebuilding in their countries of origin with specific reference to Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria between 1995 and 2013. Remittances from diaspora to developing countries’ are three times larger than official development assistance (ODA). In relation to a country’s/region’s population, it is revealed that migrants from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria are less than the world, and sub-Saharan Africa. The adverse consequences of migration of skilled labour are more severe for small economies than for larger economies and the incentive to attract skilled human resources home is meager. About one-sixth of Nigeria’s and Ethiopia’s total inflows (export) and one-ninth of the total inflows of Kenya are from diaspora remittances. The estimated annual potential diaspora market that can be tapped by issuing bond for Nigeria is about $6 billion, for Ethiopia and Kenya more than $4 billion and $3 billion, respectively. The Kenyan diaspora is well organized across the globe, attentive to and keenly participates in conflict resolution and peace-building affairs. Even though there are some efforts, the vast majority of Nigerian diaspora is not active in dealing with conflict resolution, peace-building and political affairs in Nigeria. Unlike Kenyan and Nigerian diasporas, most of conflict-generated Ethiopian diasporas’ role is wrecking and escalating conflict.
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Displacing the State
In colonial Africa, Christianity has often supported, sustained,
and legitimated a violent process of governance. More recently,
however, following decades of violence and oppression, churches and
religious organizations have mobilized African publics against
corrupt and abusive regimes and facilitated new forms of
reconciliation and cooperation. It is the purpose of Displacing
the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa to
illustrate the nature of religion's ambivalent power in Africa
while suggesting new directions in the study of religion, conflict,
and peace studies, with a specific focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
As the editors make clear, most of the literature on conflict
and peacebuilding in Africa has been concerned with dramatic
conflicts such as genocide and war. In these studies,
\"conflict\"usually means a violent clash between parties with
opposing interests, while \"peace\" implies reconciliation and
cooperation between these parties, usually with a view to achieving
a social order predicated on the idea of the sovereign national
state whose hegemony is viewed as normative. The contributors argue
that this perspective is inadequate for understanding the nature,
depth, and persistence of conflict in Africa. In contrast, the
chapters in this volume adopt an ethnographic approach, often
focusing on mundane manifestations of both conflict and peace, and
in so doing draw attention to the ambiguities and ambivalences of
conflict and peace in everyday life. The volume therefore focuses
our attention on the extent to which everyday conflict contributes
to subsequently larger and more highly visible clashes.
Displacing the State makes two important contributions
to the study of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. First, it
shows how peace is conceptualized and negotiated in daily life,
often in ways that are counterintuitive and anything but peaceful.
Second, the volume uses African case studies to confront
assumptions about the nature of the relationships among religion,
conflict, and peace.
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Supporting Pastoralist Livelihoods in Eastern Africa Through Peace Building
Conflict reduction and peace building initiatives have become the latest development fashion to support insecure pastoralist livelihoods in eastern Africa. Jeremy Lind argues that common approaches in this area are weakened by the predominant understanding of conflicts involving pastoralists as competition over scarce resources as well as the relative inattention to the situation and particular needs of the destitute population.
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