Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa

by: Joseph Adero Ngala (Editor),Rachel Julian(Editor),Jonathan Henriques(Editor)&0more

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 29 Aug. 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 247 pages

ISBN-10: 3031390423

ISBN-13: 9783031390425

Book Description

This edited volume haesses African expertise to examine the local and global dimensions of peace. It is an outcome of a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya that convened African academics and practitioners with diverse specialisations. The authors’ contributions foreground local voices across a broad scope of inquiry, including rural community structures, health, trauma, sexual violence, peacekeeping and cybersecurity. African knowledge is essential to understanding peace on the continent – the complexities of conflict and insecurity, the lived experiences of individuals and communities, and their responses to such phenomena. This analytical approach underpins the book, creating fertile ground to identify and develop innovations that hold the promise for sustainable African solutions.