Some Reflections on Indigenous Approaches to Building Peace in Africa: Focusing on the Case of Ubuntu in South Africa
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It is generally argued that a number of factors, which mainly include the legacy of colonialism, globalization and the liberal peace project, contributed to neglecting the values of indigenous approaches to building peace in Africa. Amongst these different factors negatively affecting the utility of indigenous approaches, the paper restricts the critiquing discussion of Western-oriented approaches to the liberal peace which has played its massive role in compromising the potentials of indigenous approaches in Africa. Given that externally driven international approaches to resolving conflict in Africa have traditionally disregarded the importance of an inner-oriented and long-term approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding, that is, this article deals with some of reflections on indigenous approaches to building peace in Africa with a focus on the indigenous Ubuntu philosophy and its application to the case of how Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has played the role in promoting the healing and restorative processes in the post-Apartheid South Africa. Before concluding the paper, it projects some of important limits and challenges of the indigenous Ubuntu approaches to building peace in Africa.
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It is generally argued that a number of factors, which mainly include the legacy of colonialism, globalization and the liberal peace project, contributed to neglecting the values of indigenous approaches to building peace in Africa. Amongst these different factors negatively affecting the utility of indigenous approaches, the paper restricts the critiquing discussion of Western-oriented approaches to the liberal peace which has played its massive role in compromising the potentials of indigenous approaches in Africa. Given that externally driven international approaches to resolving conflict in Africa have traditionally disregarded the importance of an inner-oriented and long-term approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding, that is, this article deals with some of reflections on indigenous approaches to building peace in Africa with a focus on the indigenous Ubuntu philosophy and its application to the case of how Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has played the role in promoting the healing and restorative processes in the post-Apartheid South Africa. Before concluding the paper, it projects some of important limits and challenges of the indigenous Ubuntu approaches to building peace in Africa.
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