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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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Nov 19 2014
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 392
ISBN 9780739192597
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations; 3 tables;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
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