This book advances the peace discourse as defined in UN guidelines, while also working towards the implementation of the science of peace in various educational contexts in Africa, particularly at universities. The contributions gathered here are intended to highlight the role of university peace studies programs, particularly their relevance for peace education, peace research and peace work.
The book is dedicated to students and teachers of Peace Studies and Development Studies at universities as well as civil society experts. They bear a great responsibility with regard to shaping the “Culture of Peace” called for by the UN, based on the foundation of peace education and peace work and in the context of an adequate peace policy. The book seeks to strengthen African pillars of lasting peace through Peace Studies. Analyzing the latest topics in Africa of universal importance, it offers a valuable reference guide for researchers and professionals grappling with the realities of nonviolence and other essential topics in Peace Studies.
Chapter
1. Pan African Peace Research and Nonviolence: Dynamism and
Growth across Diverse Disciplines and Ideologies.
Chapter
2. Studying
Peacebuilding and Nonviolence: The Ethos and Experience of the International
Centre of Nonviolence, South Africa.
Chapter
3. Nonviolence as a Decolonial
Principle: Limits and Possibilities of Mainstreaming Peace Studies in
Africa.
Chapter
4. Sustainable Peace, Peace Ecology and Ecological Peace
Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Chapter
5. Sustainable Peace Education as a
Response to Violent Conflict in Nigeria.
Chapter
6. Alternative Societal
Models of Peace Education in Cameroon.
Chapter
7. Analysing Peace Education
in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Chapter
8. The Failures of Higher Education
in Addressing Peace Preservation in Mozambique.
Chapter
9. Language and
Culture in Peacebuilding: Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission of
Nigeria (HRVIC): 1999-2021.
Chapter
10. The Place of Peace in Linguistic
Diversity within Religious Congregations in Zambia.
Chapter
11. Learning
Pragmatic Nonviolence Together: African Peace Studies in Australia.
Chapter
12. Challenges in Teaching Nonviolence in Schools.
Chapter
13. Learning
Lessons of Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Coming
to Terms with the Past through Peace Education?.
Chapter
14. Insights into
the Challenges of Evaluating Young Learners Intercultural Competences for
better Living-togetherness.
Chapter
15. The Role of Womens Pre-marriage
Rites of Passage and Cultural Practices in Promoting Peace in Kabwe District,
Central Province, Zambia.
Chapter
16.
Chapter Ogoni Womens Peace,
Nonviolence and Feminist Resistance.
Chapter
17. Beyond Rhetoric to
Practice: A Review of Womens Place within the African Peace and Security
Architecture.
Chapter
18. A Rapid Assessment of the Interplay between
Gender, Financial Literacy and Peacemaking.
Chapter
19. Achieving Nationhood
in the Trauma of Ethnic War/s and Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi: AWomen
Writers Angle.
Chapter
20. Nonviolent Conflict and the Transitions to
Multi-party Democracy in Burkina Faso.
Chapter
21. Walk to Work: A New
Wave of Non-violent Activism against the Militarization of Ugandan Politics.-
Chapter
22. Peace Studies: Panacea for National Unity and Socio-economic
Development of Nigeria.
Chapter
23. Socio-economic Role of Mass Media in
Peacebuilding: The Case of Uganda.
Chapter
24. Peace Education, the
Relevance of Comparative Studies in the Field of Religion: A Case Study of
Islam and Christianity.
Chapter
25. Dance & Peacebuilding: Developing
Nonviolence Practices in an Interdisciplinary Course.
Chapter
26. The Arts
of Education and Governance: Peace in the Person and in the State.
Chapter
27. The Creative Path to Peace and Nonviolence in Africa.
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Egon Spiegel is the Chair of Practical Theology Pedagogics of Religion and Pastoral Theology at the University of Vechta, Germany.
Dr. George Mutalemwa is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at St. Augustine University of Tanzania, and Executive Secretary of the Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar.
Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu is a Professor of History and the UNESCO Chair of Peace Studies at Nanjing University, China.
Prof. Dr. Lester R. Kurtz is a Professor of Public Sociology at George Mason University, USA, and a faculty affiliate of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution.
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