Seeds of new hope
Subtitle: pan-African peace studies for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Matt Meyer and Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo.
Contributors: Meyer, Matt.; Ndura-Ouédraogo, Elavie.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Peace-building -- Africa; Conflict management -- Africa; Pan-Africanism; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by H. Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda; title: Introduction: Africa at a crossroads / by Matt Meyer and Elavie Ndura-Ouédraogo; title: Acknowledgements; title: Planting the seeds: contexts for potential hope; title: Seeds of new hope / Bill Sutherland; title: Some thoughts on nonviolence / Judith Atiri; title: Ubuntu and African conceptions of peace and reconciliation / Horace G. Campbell; title: Waves of nonviolence and the new revolutionary movements / Jorgan Johannsen; title: From Haiti, 1804 to Nagasaki to Iraq: fidelity to humanity is the only way to peace and justice / Jacques Depelchin; title: War, globalization, and reproduction / Silvia Federici; title: Solidarity struggles: African Americans, Africans in America, and the fight for immigrant rights / Nunu Kidane; title: Roots causes of peacelessness and approaches to peace in Africa / Yash Tandon; title: We wanted peace: African women's initiatives for peace / Shelley Anderson; title: Working the land: contemporary issues in African peace studies; title: The four horsemen of the apocalypse: structural causes of crisis and violence in Africa / Laurie Nathan; title: Conflict resolution in Africa: a comparative empirical analysis / Richard Jackson; title: Be/coming home girls: beyond victims-power and agency for African and other women / Bernadette Muthien; title: The role of gender in conflict prevention: an examination of four conflict-ridden countries: Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and Sudan / Judith Atiri; title: Resistance and the transnational fight for LGBT rights in Africa / Chesterfield Samba; title: Expand the list! Life over debt and the eradication of African poverty / Imani Countess; title: Redesigning peace in Africa: overview of the Great Lakes conflict / Rais Neza Boneza; title: Under the palaver tree: a moratorium on the importation, exportation, and manufacture of light weapons / Andrew Murray.