Root Causes of Peacelessness and Approaches to Peace in Africa

Tandon, Yash

doi:10.1111/0149-0508.00149

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“…Africa’s 50 wars across the Sudan, Congo, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal (Casamance), Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, DRC, and Nigeria, for example, have had the effect of decimating the environment and causing the displacement of millions of people along with destroying animal and plant habitats across the continent. For instance, in 1996, 14 of 53 African countries were involved in internecine military conflicts that resulted in 8 million people becoming refugees (Tandon, 1999). War is not just an antihuman activity; it contaminates the air with poisons from shells, and kills animals and other life on the Earth when strafing and bombs are used from the air (Rodrigo, 2007).…”

Section: Ecological and Environmental Devastation In Africa Todaymentioning

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Restoring Africa’s Heartland

Kunnie

2013

Journal of Black Studies

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This article will examine the issue of the environmental devastation and cultural despoliation of the African continent, rooted in the destruction of the Earth conceptualized in medieval and postmedieval European industrial cultures that viewed the Earth as a commodity for extraction and exploitation. The subsequent industrially induced erasure of forests; decimation of the landscape; pollution of rivers, seaways, and water systems; vitiation of clean air; and the continued subjugation of women has produced a continent now in social, economic, and cultural decay in many respects. The article is concerned with addressing the crisis of environmental degradation, economic underdevelopment, and concomitant disempowerment of women. It painstakingly proposes Indigenous cultural and cosmological approaches in the 21st century as ways of addressing the crisis of environmental despoliation and gender oppression in Africa so that humans and all life on the continent are empowered to live in community and harmony with each other, and conjointly build sustainable socioeconomies that serve the needs of Africa’s people, particularly those who reside in impoverished contexts.

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Restoring Africa’s Heartland

Kunnie

2013

Journal of Black Studies

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“…The gender disempowerment that occurs in conflict contexts, and the systems and structures that lead to conflict circumstances, emphasize the perpetual need to provide human rights protection in all settings and especially in education settings. Indeed, in SSA, poverty is both a source and result of conflict and often leads to a vicious cycle of poverty (Goodhand 2003;Ramirez 2005;Tandon 2000).…”

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HIV education in emergency, conflict, and post-conflict contexts

Jacob

Ouattara²

2009

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Education programmes that address HIV are increasingly necessary in emergency, conflict and post-conflict (ECPC) contexts. A wide range of social, cultural, and political factors influence the prevention and treatment of HIV in such contexts. We begin this article with a description of each context, drawing on a review of recently published literature and experience coordinating HIV education programmes and research studies in a number of countries. We then provide an overview of challenges and opportunities that pertain to each ECPC context. Several national case study examples are included, highlighting obstacles to avoid and practices that have succeeded in these complex environments. We argue that HIV education can and should play an essential role in overcoming AIDS in ECPC contexts and that it is especially important among populations with high HIV prevalence. The conclusion recommends ways to best meet the needs of nations in ECPC contexts, paying special attention to the complementary issues of capacity building, prevention, treatment, and care and support from a multisectoral perspective.

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Aggression, Violence, Evil, and Peace

Rivera

2003

Handbook of Psychology

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The attainment of peace requires an understanding of aggression, violence, and evil, as well as a knowledge of the various paths that may lead to peace. This chapter begins by examining different ways to conceptualize and comprehend aggression and how it may be involved in peaceful as well as violent behavior. The chapter then reviews the extensive literature on many forms of direct (aggressive) and indirect (structural) violence. Violence is considered as a matter of fact. However, evil is considered as involving moral judgment. The literature describes how this judgment may be distorted by an attempt to distance evil from the self, how there are different ways to conceive of evil, and how religions attempt to contain it. Peace is considered as a goodness that is the opposite of evil. The literature on peace is described in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of four different paths towards peace. These may be characterized as involving: strength, negotiation, justice, and personal transformation. Each path may be considered as a way of developing peaceful cultures. Such cultures are described. The literature suggests that if cultures of peace are to develop in contemporary society, people must master different types of negotiation and nonviolent action.

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Root Causes of Peacelessness and Approaches to Peace in Africa

Cited by 6 publications

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Restoring Africa’s Heartland

Restoring Africa’s Heartland

HIV education in emergency, conflict, and post-conflict contexts

Aggression, Violence, Evil, and Peace

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