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What Colonialism Ignored : African Potentials for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa /

As Julius Nyerere once noted, Africa has largely been the continent of peace, though this fact has not been widely publicised. In reality, Africa possesses dynamic potentials for resolving contradictions and violent ruptures that colonial authorities, post-colonial states and global actors have fail...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Mine, Yōichi, 1961- (Editor), Moyo, Sam (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:African potentials.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction : African potentials for conflict resolution and transformation
  • part I : Structure and agency
  • 2. Southern African potentials to address land-based conflict
  • 3. Utilising 'African potentials' to resolve conflicts in a changing agrarian situation in central Zimbabwe
  • 4. Guardian or misfeasor? Chiefs' roles in land administration under the 1995 Land Act in Zambia
  • part II. National projections
  • 5. History as an African potential : Namibia, Southern Africa and East Asia in historical connectedness and contemporaneousness
  • 6. Creating space for productive deviance : the latent function of the Truth and reconciliation Commission of South Africa
  • 7. Sharing power for conflict resolution? Pluralism, integrationism and African potentials
  • part III. The power of conversation
  • 8. Potential of African philosophy in conflict resolution and peace-building
  • 9. Guided by weak conviction : tentative order and morality among urban dwellers in the unconventional economy of 2008 Zimbabwe
  • 10. Thinking an African politics of peace in an era of increasing violence.