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African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality : Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions.
African societies have rich histories, cultural heritages, knowledge systems, philosophies, and institutions that they have shaped and reshaped through history. However, the continent has been repeatedly portrayed negatively as plagued by multitudinous troubles: famine, conflict, coup, massacres, co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Contributors; Contents; Part One
- Conceptual and Contextual Issues; Chapter 1
- Introduction: Achieving Peace and Coexistence through African Potentials; 1.1. Defining 'African Potentials'; 1.2. Critiquing the View of Liberal Peace as Self-Evident; 1.3. Two Paths to Exploring 'African Potentials'; 1.3.1. Empirical and Experiential Inquiries; 1.3.2. Philosophical, Theoretical and Ideological Inquiries; 1.4. The Experiences of the Five African Forums; 1.5. Expressions of African Potentials; 1.5.1 Interface Function; 1.5.2. Aspiration for Pluralism.
- 1.5.3. Collective Agency and Networking1.5.4. Dynamism and Flexibility; 1.5.5. Resilience and Tolerance; 1.5.6. Innovativeness and Creative Expression; 1.6. Organisation of the Book; Notes; References; Chapter 2
- The Potentials of African Customary Law: Reflections on Concepts, Values, and Knowledge Generation; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Towards Conceptual Clarity; 2.2.1. Types of Incompatibility; 2.2.2. Methods of Handling Incompatibility; 2.2.3. Approaches to Ending Incompatibility; 2.3. Values and Virtues of Customary Law; 2.3.1. Restoration of Social Order; 2.3.2. Quest for Truth.
- 2.3.3. Public Participation2.3.4. Collective Responsibility; 2.3.5. Accessibility, Efficiency and Affordability; 2.4. Systematic and Comparative Research; 2.4.1. The Structure of Customary Courts; 2.4.2. The Procedures of Customary Courts; 2.4.3. Legal Pluralism; 2.5. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3
- New Challenges for African Potentials in Mediating Conflicts: The Case of Turkana, Northwestern Kenya; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Background; 3.2.1. The Area; 3.2.2. Local Conflict Resolution Mechanisms and Pastoral Conflicts; 3.2.3. Challenges for Local Conflict Resolution Mechanisms.
- 3.3. The New Context, Conflict and Peace3.3.1. Devolution; 3.3.2. Cultural Change; 3.3.3. Border Disputes; 3.3.4. Local Conflict Resolution and Powerful Players; 3.3.5. Conservancies, a New Model for Land Sharing and Leadership?; 3.4. Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4
- Negotiating Statehood: Handling the Crisis of South Sudan; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The Concept of African Potentials with Relevance to South Sudan; 4.3. Overarching Contextualisation of Situation; 4.4. Handling Statehood under Threat of Rebellion; 4.5. From an Agreement on Paper to a Bloody Peace.
- 4.6. Negotiating Statehood with Other Non-state Armed Groups4.7. Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Part Two
- Lived Experiences of Overcoming Challenges; Chapter 5
- The Fambul Tok ('Family Talk') Project: A Hybrid Attempt for Local Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone; 5.1. Post-conflict Sierra Leone: A Testing Ground for Liberal State-building; 5.2. Political Turmoil and the Establishment of Special Courts after the Peace Agreement; 5.3. Reconciliation through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Global and Local Hybridity in Formal Institutions.