Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This book evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It proposes 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.

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Produktdetails

• Conflict and Security in the Developing World
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780739192580
• ISBN-10: 0739192582
• Artikelnr.: 41415082

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, Homegrown Solutions? The Efficacy of
Indigenous Conflict Resolution/Management Approaches in Ghana Sarah Okaebea
Danso and Joana Ama Osei-Tutu Nigeria Chapter Nine: Women's Involvement in
Indigenous Conflict Management: An Analysis of the Role of Umuada in
Conflict Management in Traditional Igbo Society of Southeastern Nigeria
Felix Chinwe Asogwa Chapter Ten: The Role of the Umunna and Age Grades in
Traditional Conflict Management in Igboland Luke Amadi and James E. Agena
Chapter Eleven: Communication and Conflict Management in Traditional Igbo
Society Emmanuel J. C. Duru, Silk Ugwu Ogbu, and Ifeanyi F. Didiugwu
Chapter Twelve: Ilepa Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria: What Do the Dead
Have to Do With Peace and Conflict? Olutayo C. Adesina Chapter Thirteen:
Indigenous Methods in Conflict Resolution: The Example of Yorùbá Society
Lérè Adéye¿mí Chapter Fourteen: Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change:
Orature in Reconciliation and Conflict Management among the Yorùbá Olusola
George Ajibade Chapter Fifteen: The Challenges of Conflict Transformation:
Amnesty in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria in Retrospect Willie Eselebor
Chapter Sixteen: From Militancy to Amnesty: An Exploration of Nigeria's
Indigenous Conflict Management Strategy in the Niger Delta Region Severus
Ifeanyi Odoziobodo and Ifeanyi F. Dididugwu Chapter Seventeen: Alternative
Dispute Resolution Strategies, Undergraduate Student Union Leaders, and
Conflict Management in Selected Tertiary Institutions in Ibadan Clement O.
O. Kolawole and Toluwalope Olajumoke Kolawole Cameroon Chapter Eighteen:
Beitonghekeh: Peoples' Power and Conflict Resolution in Cameroon Henry Kam
Kah Chapter Nineteen: Indigenous Peacemaking among the Banso People of
Cameroon: Bonyang as a Conflict Resolution System Solomon Losha and Stephen
Ojong Agbor Chapter Twenty: Bekem in Peacemaking in Nweh Society Achankeng
Fonkem Chapter Twenty One: Conclusion: Implications of Epistemic Diversity
for Conflict Management in West Africa and the World Jesse J. Benjamin and
Akanmu G. Adebayo