Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond Right and Wrong
Redaktion: Lundy, Brandon D.; Adjei, Joseph Kingsley; Benjamin, Jesse J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa:Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The book critically evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies with a view to determining their effectiveness in the context of the societies' history and culture, and the relevance and adaptability of these strategies in contemporary contexts. This book takes a scholarly approach, avoiding romanticizing or idealizing indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It advocates a set of mechanisms by which the best elements of indigenous knowledge and skills in conflict management may be deployed to settle contemporary disputes, and made portable for adoption and adaptation by other complex societies in the region and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739192597
• Artikelnr.: 43814435

Autorenporträt

Akanmu G. Adebayo is professor of history and director of the Center for Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. Joseph Kingsley Adjei is a PhD candidate in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. Jesse J. Benjamin is associate professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Kennesaw State University. Brandon D. Lundy is associate professor of anthropology and associate director of the PhD program in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: Reconciliation and Conflict Management in West
Africa through Cultural Traditions
Brandon D. Lundy and Joseph Kingsley Adjei
General and Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter Two: Conflicts in Africa: Negotiating Space for Indigenous Conflict
Management Strategies in the Contemporary Age
Olutayo C. Adesina
Chapter Three: Exploring Indigenous Mechanisms for Peacemaking in West
Africa
Serwaa Brewoo and Mustapha Abdallah
Chapter Four: Border Disputes in Africa and Traditional Approaches to
Resolving Them
Joan Mbagwu
Chapter Five: ". . . in the Name of the Son": the 'Son' as Scapegoat in
African Literature.
Kolawole Olaiya
Ghana
Chapter Six: The Role of the Chieftaincy Institution in Ensuring Peace in
Ghana from Precolonial Times to the Present
Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Chapter Seven: Colonial Justice and Conflict Management: The Case of Chief
Seniagya and the Ashanti Golden Stool
Joseph Kingsley Adjei and Akanmu G. Adebayo
Chapter Eight: Homegrown Crises, Homegrow