CONNECTING CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-ASIAN PEACEMAKING AND NONVIOLENCE
Subtitle: from satagraha to ujamaa
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781527519190; 9781527516281
Subjects: Peace-building; Nonviolence; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Government; International; International Relations; General
Description: This collection brings together accomplished and emerging scholars who are researching and working for grassroots social change throughout Africa and Asia. The essays within are sourced from a series of seminars held during the founding African Peace Research and Education Association Conference at the Economic Community of West African States Parliament in Abuja, Nigeria. The book draws strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples on the two most populous continents. Looking at contemporary Gandhian, Chinese, armed guerrilla, insurrectionist, state-supported, and civil resistance mov.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Table of Contents; title: Foreword; title: A Textual and Political Prologue; title: Introduction; title: Preface; title: I Choose Peace (poem); title: Looking to Africa for Peace; title: In Support of Nonviolent People's Struggle against Injustice; title: Section I: Setting the Scene; title: Chapter One; title: Chapter Two; title: Chapter Three; title: Chapter Four; title: Chapter Five; title: Chapter Six; title: Section II: Unarmed Civil Society Case Studies; title: Chapter Seven; title: Chapter Eight; title: Chapter Nine; title: Chapter Ten; title: Chapter Eleven; title: Chapter Twelve; title: Chapter Thirteen; title: Chapter Fourteen; title: Chapter Fifteen; title: Section III: New Day Dawning; title: Chapter Sixteen; title: Chapter Seventeen; title: Chapter Eighteen; title: Chapter Nineteen; title: Chapter Twenty; title: Chapter Twenty-One; title: Chapter Twenty-Two; title: Chapter Twenty-Three; title: Chapter Twenty-Four; title: Chapter Twenty-Five; title: Chapter Twenty-Six; title: "Net Worth" (poem); title: Contributors.