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ISBN: 3-031-40754-7 , 9783031407543 , 3031407547

Inhalt: This handbook brings together global research on violence in Africa from academics, practitioners and activists across a multitude of subjects. It seeks to create the widest possible space for debate, discussion, and analysis of the broad range of issues and problems of violence. The chapters in this handbook cover diverse themes such as: the topography of violence, technologies of violence, terrorism, civil war and insurgent violence, child soldiers and violence, epistemic violence, structural violence, violence and memory, violence and the law, cultural mechanisms for creating, sustaining, resisting, and mitigating violence, political violence, violence in moments of religious, social and geo-political transformation, gender and violence, violence against nature, and violence and social media. It shines a light on key elements of African culture and the cultural mechanisms for creating, sustaining, resisting, and mitigating violence in Africa. It strives to be relevant to the needs and concerns of African societies by suggesting practical solutions for overcoming violence. This book ties in with development initiatives in Africa, such as Agenda 2063, for the Africa We Want, and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Obert Bernard Mlambo is Associate Professor in Classical studies and history at the University of Zimbabwe. He is former Georg Forster Research Fellow and former Guest Scholar at the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is broadly framed by the issues of violence, masculinity, gender and colonialism. He is co-editing (with Ezra Chitando, Sakhmuzi Mfecane and Kopano Ratele) the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of Men and Masculinities in Africa amongst other published books. Ezra Chitando serves as Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and has served as the Desmond Tutu Extraordinary Professor for Social Justice at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. He has a wide range of research and publication interests, including violence against women, political violence and peacebuilding. He co-edited the volume Justice Not Silence: Churches Facing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.

Anmerkung: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contents -- Violence in Africa: A General Introduction -- 1 Part I: Conceptualizing Violence in Africa -- 2 Part II: The State and Violence in Africa -- 3 Part III: Children, Youth, and Violence -- 4 Part IV: Nature, Religion, and Cultural Violence in Africa -- 5 Part V: Gender and Violence in Africa -- 6 Part VI: Violence, Memory, and the Law in Africa -- 7 Part VII: Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa -- Bibliography -- Conceptualizing Violence in Africa -- Violence in Africa: Reflecting on a Broad Concept -- 1 Violence: Some Notes on a Slippery Concept -- 2 Forms of Violence in Africa -- Epistemic Violence -- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence -- Violence Against Men and Boys -- Violence Against Sex Workers -- Violence Against Children -- Violence Against Sexual Minorities -- Ecological Violence -- Violence by the State -- Electoral Violence -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- The Rate of Oppression (ROp): The Apartheid Studies Approach to the Study of Harm -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Apartheid Studies: Motivations, Itineraries, and "Where Were You When X" -- 3 The Rate of Oppression (ROp) and the Experience of Harm: A Discussion -- 4 By Way of Conclusion: Harm and Circadian Rhythms -- References -- On Systemic and Epistemic Violence in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mapping the Forms of Violence Beyond Common Conceptions -- 3 The Modern Infrastructures of Systems of Violence -- 4 The Cognitive Empire and Epistemic Violence -- 5 Existential, Justice and Epistemic Dimensions of Violence -- 6 Towards the Resolution of Epistemic Violence -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Technologies of Violence in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Concepts: "Technology" and "Violence" -- 3 The New Millennium -- 4 End of Old-Type Wars. , 5 Technology of Xenophobic and Genocidal Violence in Africa -- 6 Technologies of Infrastructure and Geography in Africa -- 7 Religious Wars/Terrorism -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Border Violence in Africa -- 1 Africa's Border Politics -- 2 Conceptualizing Eurocentric Border Violence -- Eurocentric Bordering Practices -- Researching Border Violence -- The Tunisian Case -- 3 Memories and Experiences of Border Violence in Tunisia -- Algeria: A Racist Jungle -- Morocco: An Externalized Police State -- Libya: Detention and Torture in a Mafia Zone -- Zarzis: Fishing and Mourning Migrants -- Tunis: Humanitarian Neglect and Wavering Hospitality -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Diaspora and the Afterlife of Violence: Eritrean National Narratives and What Goes Without Saying -- 1 Living with Losses: Eritrean Experiences of Violence -- 2 Suffering for the Nation -- 3 Diaspora and the Afterlife of Violence -- 4 What Goes Without Saying -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- The Chemical Violence of Colonial Encounters in Africa: Historiographical Reflections and Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Toxic Colonial Histories: Chemicalized Landscapes and Disposable Bodies -- 3 Toxic Timescapes of Colonialism: Temporalities of Chemical Violence in Africa -- 4 Towards a New Analytical Frontier of Studying Violence in Africa -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Epistemic Violence in the Postcolony: Interrogating the Colonial Legacy and War in Francophone African Literature -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Violence and Its Literary Representation -- 3 Epistemic Violence -- 4 War as Violence/The Violence of War -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Geographies of Violence and Informalization: The Case of Mathare Slums in Nairobi, Kenya -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Study Area and Methodology -- 3 Slums and Structured Violence -- 4 Circuit and Existentialist Violence. , 5 State Violence on Mathare Residents -- 6 State Action on Managing Slum Issues -- 7 The Origin and Activities of Vigilantes in Nairobi's Slums -- 8 Engaging in Violence Perpetrated By Formal Institutions and Vigilantes -- 9 The Way Forward -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Through the Afrocentricity Lens: Terror, Insurgency and Implications for Regional Integration in Southern Africa from Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Africa, Regional Integration, and the Economic Growth Agenda: A Concise Analysis of Literature -- 3 Historically Africanizing Terrorism and Insurgency -- 4 The Resurrection of Terror and Insurgency in Capo Delgado: Unpacking the Driving Motives -- Implications for Southern African Regional Integration -- Possible Recommendations -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The State and Violence in Africa -- Discourses on Political Violence and the Mechanics of Legitimation in Official Commissions of Inquiry in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptualizing Political Violence -- 3 Commissions and (Colonial) State Formation -- Commissions on the Continent -- Colonial Commissions, Law, and Indirect Rule -- 4 Discourses on Violence in Official Commissions -- 5 Not a Strikers' Demonstration But a Looting Mob -- 6 Truth-Seeking to Critique State Violence in Africa -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Party Politics, Violence, Impunity, and Social Injustices in Zimbabwe (1980-2022) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background to the Study -- 3 Literature Review -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Findings and Discussion -- Post-Election Evictions 1985 -- Gukurahundi, 1982-1987 -- Land Invasions, 2000 -- Operation Murambatsvina, 2005 -- 2008 Election Violence-The Presidential Run-Off -- Post-Mugabe Election Violence in 2018 -- Pre-2023 Election Conditions -- Banning of Opposition Rallies -- Delayed Court Cases Involving Opposition Members. , 6 Making Every Civil Servant a ZANU PF Card-Carrying Member -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa: Towards Sustainable Peace -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Political Economy Analysis: A Theoretical Lens -- Structural Roots -- Super-Structural Triggers -- 3 Elections-Violence Nexus -- 4 Electoral Cycle Dynamics -- 5 Towards Sustainable Peace -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Dirge to Slit Bodies": EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku's Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up -- 1 Introduction -- 2 #EndSARS: Police Brutality, Reforms, and Disbandment of SARS -- 3 The 2017 EndSARS Campaign-Prologue -- 4 The 2020 EndSARS Campaign and the Lekki Massacre-Climax -- 5 The 2020 EndSARS Campaign and the Lekki Massacre-Epilogue -- 6 #EndSARS: Police Brutality and Protest Voices in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku's Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Resource Curse and Structural Violence in Angola: A Path for Perpetual Conflicts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Overview of Angola: Hidden Violence -- 4 The Resource Curse -- 5 Governance of Resources -- 6 Public Sector Performance -- 7 Investment Status -- 8 Sustainability of Oil Production -- 9 Debt Sustainability -- 10 The Energy Sector -- 11 Human Capital Status -- 12 Private Sector Performance -- 13 Business Opportunities -- 14 Governance Challenges Relating to Private Sector Growth -- 15 Overall Economic Challenges -- 16 Poverty and the Urban-Rural Experience -- 17 Structural Violence -- 18 Conclusion -- 19 Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Electoral Violence in Ghana's Fourth Republic: The Case of Party Vigilantism -- 1 Introduction -- A Note on the Methodology -- 2 Conceptualizing Electoral Violence -- 3 Evolution of Party Vigilante Activities in Ghana. , Nature of Party Vigilantism in the Current Dispensation -- Effects of Party Vigilante Activities on the Democratic Process -- Tackling the Party Vigilantism Menace -- 4 Conclusion and Lessons -- Bibliography -- Investigating the Causes and Impact of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Nature of Electoral Violence -- 3 An Overview of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 4 The Causes of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 5 The Impact of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ungoverned Space and National Security in Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Clarification -- Ungoverned Space -- National Security -- Violence -- 3 Theoretical Framework -- 4 Ungoverned Space Constitutes a Threat to National Security in Nigeria -- 5 Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References -- Children, Youth and Violence -- Trauma, Violence, and Memory in African Child Soldier Memoirs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reading Child Soldier Memoirs into/as History -- 3 Empirical, Narrative, and Affective Truth in Memoirs -- 4 "Victims" to "Savages": Innocence, Violence, and Narrative Rupture -- 5 Violence as a Currency of Legitimacy? -- 6 Trauma, Guilt, and Memory -- 7 Saviours and Campaigners: Military Demobilization and Activist Re-mobilization -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Africa and Violence: The Metamorphosis and Participation of Child Soldiers in Conflict Zones -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature/Theoretical Explanations -- 3 Violent Conflict in Africa -- 4 Why Become a Child Soldier? The "Push" and "Pull" Factors -- 5 Efforts at Stopping Child Soldiering -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Youth, Violence, and Political Accumulation: Urban Militias in Zimbabwe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Politics of Violence -- 3 Researching the Context of Fear -- 4 Mobilization Register as Symbolic Violence. , 5 Singing Songs, Marching, and Dancing for the Enemy.

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Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Mlambo, Obert Bernard The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 ISBN 9783031407536

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40754-3

UID:

Umfang: 1 online resource (xxxii, 1160 pages) : , illustrations (some color)

Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2024.

ISBN: 9783031407543 , 3031407547

Inhalt: This handbook brings together global research on violence in Africa from academics, practitioners and activists across a multitude of subjects. It seeks to create the widest possible space for debate, discussion, and analysis of the broad range of issues and problems of violence. The chapters in this handbook cover diverse themes such as: the topography of violence, technologies of violence, terrorism, civil war and insurgent violence, child soldiers and violence, epistemic violence, structural violence, violence and memory, violence and the law, cultural mechanisms for creating, sustaining, resisting, and mitigating violence, political violence, violence in moments of religious, social and geo-political transformation, gender and violence, violence against nature, and violence and social media. It shines a light on key elements of African culture and the cultural mechanisms for creating, sustaining, resisting, and mitigating violence in Africa. It strives to be relevant to the needs and concerns of African societies by suggesting practical solutions for overcoming violence. This book ties in with development initiatives in Africa, such as Agenda 2063, for the Africa We Want, and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Obert Bernard Mlambo is Associate Professor in Classical studies and history at the University of Zimbabwe. He is former Georg Forster Research Fellow and former Guest Scholar at the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is broadly framed by the issues of violence, masculinity, gender and colonialism. He is co-editing (with Ezra Chitando, Sakhmuzi Mfecane and Kopano Ratele) the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of Men and Masculinities in Africa amongst other published books. Ezra Chitando serves as Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and has served as the Desmond Tutu Extraordinary Professor for Social Justice at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. He has a wide range of research and publication interests, including violence against women, political violence and peacebuilding. He co-edited the volume Justice Not Silence: Churches Facing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.

Anmerkung: Foreword by Professor Stathis Kalyvas, Oxford -- SECTION A: Technologies of Violence in Africa -- 1. Systemic and Epistemic Violence in Africa; Patricia Pinky Ndlovu: Chair of Sociology and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the "Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence" -- 2. Theoretical underpinnings of violence in Africa; Clive Tendai Zimunya: Lecturer of Philosophy and Obert Bernard Mlambo, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History -- 3. Technologies of Violence in Africa; Obert Bernard Mlambo, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History and Wesley Mwatwara, Historian -- 4. Of Exile as Violence in Lewis Nkosi's Thought; Tendayi Sithole, Department of Political Sciences -- 5. Africa and violence: the metamorphosis and the participation of Child soldiers in conflict zones; Toyin Cotties Adetiba, Department of Political and International Studies -- 6. Structural violence and resource curse in Angola -- 7. Violence against nature in Africa: a historical assessment; Marlino Eugénio Mubai, History, Environmental and Political Ecology -- SECTION B: The State and Violence in Africa -- 8. Understanding Electoral Violence in Africa; Matlosa Khabele, African Union Commission Director for Political Affairs -- 9. Understanding violence from an interpersonal perspective: The case of Zimbabwe and state sponsored violence; Chenai G. Matshaka, Centre for Mediation in Africa and Ruth Murambadoro, the Centre for Feminist Research -- 10. 'Dirge to Slit Bodies': EndSARS, Police Brutality and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku's Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up; Ayokunmi O. Ojebode, the Institute for Name-Studies (INS) -- 11. The Silent Violence in Africa- Manifestations of Political Violence; Annie Barbara Chikwanha, Politics and International Relations -- 12. Beyond ethnicity: Reflections on the history and politics of violence in Uganda; Evarist Ngabirano, the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) -- 13. Ungoverned Space and National Security in Nigeria; Arinze Ngwube, Department of Political Science -- 14. Bound to violence? Interrogating violence in Francophone African literatures; G. Ncube, Stellenbosch University -- SECTION C: Children, Youth and Violence -- 15. Child Soldiers, Conflict and Cultures of Violence in Contemporary Africa, c.1980-2000s; Stacey Hynd, African History and Co-Director of the Centre for Imperial & Global History -- 16. Youth, Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons and Conflicts in 21st Century Africa; Babayo Sule, Department of Political Science and Ibrahim Kawuley, Department of Political Science -- 17. Youth, Violence and Political Accumulation: Urban militias in Harare; Simbarashe Gukurume, Sociology and Social Anthropology and Godfrey Maringira, Sol Plaatje University -- 18. "Even the Holy Book Recommends it"? Corporal Punishment, the Bible and Sacred Violence in Southern Africa; Ezra Chitando, Phenomenology and History of Religion -- 19. "Even the Holy Book Recommends it"? Corporal Punishment, the Bible and Sacred Violence in Southern Africa; Ezra Chitando, Phenomenology and History of Religion -- SECTION D: Violence, Memory and the Law in Africa -- 20. Discourses on Political Violence and State Legitimation in Official Commissions of Inquiry in Africa; Claire-Anne Lester, Stellenbosch University (Legal Sociology, Political Transitions, Transitional Justice); 21. Remembrance as a confrontation of violence? A religio-ethical consideration of the role of memory in a Zimbabwe established and ruled by violence; Collium Banda, Theology; 22. Geographies of Violence and Informalization: The Case of Mathare Slums in Nairobi, Kenya; Maurice Omollo, Maasai Mara Universit and Solomon Waliaula, Maasai Mara University -- 23. Piracy and Violence off the Coast of Nigeria: A Theoretical Analysis; Kalu Kingsley, the Cultural Heritage Preservation Research Institute -- 24. Incest as Dismissal: Anthropology and Clinics of Silence; Parfait D. Akana, Sociologist & Anthropologist -- 25. Violence and post-coloniality in contemporary Zimbabwean literature: the works of Chenjerai Hove; Oliver Nyambi, University of the Free State -- SECTION E: Religion and Cultural Violence in Africa -- 26. In God's Name: Drivers of Violent Extremism in the Northeast Nigeria; Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, Peace and Conflict History -- 27. The Epistemic Scaffolding of Religious Violence; Kizito Kiyimba, SJ -- 28. Life transforming Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counseling with transgender and intersex communities in Botswana; Tshenolo Madigele: Theology Lecturer and Oabona Sepora: Institute of Development Management -IDM -- 29. Enchanted Worldviews and Violence Against Persons with Albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa; Francis Benyah, The Study of Religions -- 30. Violence against persons with albinism in Malawi; Jones Hamburu Mawerenga, Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, and African Theology -- SECTION F: Gender and Violence in Africa; 31. Sexual Violence Against Girls and Women in African Conflict; Veronica Fynn Bruey, Legal Studies -- 32. Persisting inequalities: An intersectional view of climate change, gender and violence; Mary Nyasimi, Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation for a Sustainable Africa and Veronica Nonhlanhla Jakarasi -- 33. Violence against Women in Egypt: A Closer Look at Female Genital Mutilation and Intimate Partner Violence; Yasmin Khodary -- 34. Gender based violence in Ghana:experiences of persons with disabilities in two selected areas; Mantey Efua Esaaba, Social Work -- 35. African Diaspora Women Perpetuating Violence Against Men in the United Kingdom; Nomatter Sande -- 36. Adolescent Boys, Young Men and Mental Health in Southern Africa; Mutsawashe Chitando: Public Health, Health Economics Unit and Division -- SECTION G: Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa -- 37. Developing a Framework for Ending Violence in Africa; David Kaulemu, Philosophy -- 38. Confronting dysfunctional military violence in Africa's electoral spaces: A call for specialised civilian oversight institutions; James Tsabora, Law in the Faculty of Law -- 39. Managing electoral violence through constructive use of social media: Transforming and empowering vulnerable urban youth in Kenya; Joyce W. Gikandi: Christine W. Njuguna, Joan Kabaria- Muriithi, Lucy Kathuri-Ogola -- 40. Managing Conflict in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for the African Union;Victor H Mlambo: University of Johannesburg School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy, Ernest Toochi Aniche, Department of Political Science, and Mandla Mfundo Masuku, School of Built Environment and Development Studies -- 41. Through the Afrocentricity Lens: Terror and Insurgency and Implications for Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Reference from Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique; Daniel N. Mlambo, Tshwane University of Technology -- 42. Insurgency in Mozambique: Incorporating NATO's Article 5 to the Region's Quest for Collective Defence;Victor H Mlambo: University of Johannesburg School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy, and Mfundo Mandla Masuku: School of Built Environment and Development Studies, and Daniel N. Mlambo: Department of Public Management.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Mlambo, Obert Bernard The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 ISBN 9783031407536

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 3031407539

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40754-3

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Umfang: XXXII, 1160 p. 13 illus., 10 illus. in color. , online resource.

Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2024.

ISBN: 9783031407543

Inhalt: This handbook brings together global research on violence in Africa from academics, practitioners and activists across a multitude of subjects. It seeks to create the widest possible space for debate, discussion, and analysis of the broad range of issues and problems of violence. The chapters in this handbook cover diverse themes such as: the topography of violence, technologies of violence, terrorism, civil war and insurgent violence, child soldiers and violence, epistemic violence, structural violence, violence and memory, violence and the law, cultural mechanisms for creating, sustaining, resisting, and mitigating violence, political violence, violence in moments of religious, social and geo-political transformation, gender and violence, violence against nature, and violence and social media. It shines a light on key elements of African culture and the cultural mechanisms for creating, sustaining, resisting, and mitigating violence in Africa. It strives to be relevant to the needs and concerns of African societies by suggesting practical solutions for overcoming violence. This book ties in with development initiatives in Africa, such as Agenda 2063, for the Africa We Want, and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Obert Bernard Mlambo is Associate Professor in Classical studies and history at the University of Zimbabwe. He is former Georg Forster Research Fellow and former Guest Scholar at the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne, Germany. His research is broadly framed by the issues of violence, masculinity, gender and colonialism. He is co-editing (with Ezra Chitando, Sakhmuzi Mfecane and Kopano Ratele) the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of Men and Masculinities in Africa amongst other published books. Ezra Chitando serves as Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and has served as the Desmond Tutu Extraordinary Professor for Social Justice at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. He has a wide range of research and publication interests, including violence against women, political violence and peacebuilding. He co-edited the volume Justice Not Silence: Churches Facing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.

Anmerkung: Foreword by Professor Stathis Kalyvas, Oxford -- SECTION A: Technologies of Violence in Africa -- 1. Systemic and Epistemic Violence in Africa; Patricia Pinky Ndlovu: Chair of Sociology and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the "Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence" -- 2. Theoretical underpinnings of violence in Africa; Clive Tendai Zimunya: Lecturer of Philosophy and Obert Bernard Mlambo, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History -- 3. Technologies of Violence in Africa; Obert Bernard Mlambo, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History and Wesley Mwatwara, Historian -- 4. Of Exile as Violence in Lewis Nkosi's Thought; Tendayi Sithole, Department of Political Sciences -- 5. Africa and violence: the metamorphosis and the participation of Child soldiers in conflict zones; Toyin Cotties Adetiba, Department of Political and International Studies -- 6. Structural violence and resource curse in Angola -- 7. Violence against nature in Africa: a historical assessment; Marlino Eugénio Mubai, History, Environmental and Political Ecology -- SECTION B: The State and Violence in Africa -- 8. Understanding Electoral Violence in Africa; Matlosa Khabele, African Union Commission Director for Political Affairs -- 9. Understanding violence from an interpersonal perspective: The case of Zimbabwe and state sponsored violence; Chenai G. Matshaka, Centre for Mediation in Africa and Ruth Murambadoro, the Centre for Feminist Research -- 10. 'Dirge to Slit Bodies': EndSARS, Police Brutality and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku's Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up; Ayokunmi O. Ojebode, the Institute for Name-Studies (INS) -- 11. The Silent Violence in Africa- Manifestations of Political Violence; Annie Barbara Chikwanha, Politics and International Relations -- 12. Beyond ethnicity: Reflections on the history and politics of violence in Uganda; Evarist Ngabirano, the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) -- 13. Ungoverned Space and National Security in Nigeria; Arinze Ngwube, Department of Political Science -- 14. Bound to violence? Interrogating violence in Francophone African literatures; G. Ncube, Stellenbosch University -- SECTION C: Children, Youth and Violence -- 15. Child Soldiers, Conflict and Cultures of Violence in Contemporary Africa, c.1980-2000s; Stacey Hynd, African History and Co-Director of the Centre for Imperial & Global History -- 16. Youth, Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons and Conflicts in 21st Century Africa; Babayo Sule, Department of Political Science and Ibrahim Kawuley, Department of Political Science -- 17. Youth, Violence and Political Accumulation: Urban militias in Harare; Simbarashe Gukurume, Sociology and Social Anthropology and Godfrey Maringira, Sol Plaatje University -- 18. "Even the Holy Book Recommends it"? Corporal Punishment, the Bible and Sacred Violence in Southern Africa; Ezra Chitando, Phenomenology and History of Religion -- 19. "Even the Holy Book Recommends it"? Corporal Punishment, the Bible and Sacred Violence in Southern Africa; Ezra Chitando, Phenomenology and History of Religion -- SECTION D: Violence, Memory and the Law in Africa -- 20. Discourses on Political Violence and State Legitimation in Official Commissions of Inquiry in Africa; Claire-Anne Lester, Stellenbosch University (Legal Sociology, Political Transitions, Transitional Justice); 21. Remembrance as a confrontation of violence? A religio-ethical consideration of the role of memory in a Zimbabwe established and ruled by violence; Collium Banda, Theology; 22. Geographies of Violence and Informalization: The Case of Mathare Slums in Nairobi, Kenya; Maurice Omollo, Maasai Mara Universit and Solomon Waliaula, Maasai Mara University -- 23. Piracy and Violence off the Coast of Nigeria: A Theoretical Analysis; Kalu Kingsley, the Cultural Heritage Preservation Research Institute -- 24. Incest as Dismissal: Anthropology and Clinics of Silence; Parfait D. Akana, Sociologist & Anthropologist -- 25. Violence and post-coloniality in contemporary Zimbabwean literature: the works of Chenjerai Hove; Oliver Nyambi, University of the Free State -- SECTION E: Religion and Cultural Violence in Africa -- 26. In God's Name: Drivers of Violent Extremism in the Northeast Nigeria; Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, Peace and Conflict History -- 27. The Epistemic Scaffolding of Religious Violence; Kizito Kiyimba, SJ -- 28. Life transforming Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counseling with transgender and intersex communities in Botswana; Tshenolo Madigele: Theology Lecturer and Oabona Sepora: Institute of Development Management -IDM -- 29. Enchanted Worldviews and Violence Against Persons with Albinism in Sub-Saharan Africa; Francis Benyah, The Study of Religions -- 30. Violence against persons with albinism in Malawi; Jones Hamburu Mawerenga, Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, and African Theology -- SECTION F: Gender and Violence in Africa; 31. Sexual Violence Against Girls and Women in African Conflict; Veronica Fynn Bruey, Legal Studies -- 32. Persisting inequalities: An intersectional view of climate change, gender and violence; Mary Nyasimi, Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation for a Sustainable Africa and Veronica Nonhlanhla Jakarasi -- 33. Violence against Women in Egypt: A Closer Look at Female Genital Mutilation and Intimate Partner Violence; Yasmin Khodary -- 34. Gender based violence in Ghana:experiences of persons with disabilities in two selected areas; Mantey Efua Esaaba, Social Work -- 35. African Diaspora Women Perpetuating Violence Against Men in the United Kingdom; Nomatter Sande -- 36. Adolescent Boys, Young Men and Mental Health in Southern Africa; Mutsawashe Chitando: Public Health, Health Economics Unit and Division -- SECTION G: Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa -- 37. Developing a Framework for Ending Violence in Africa; David Kaulemu, Philosophy -- 38. Confronting dysfunctional military violence in Africa's electoral spaces: A call for specialised civilian oversight institutions; James Tsabora, Law in the Faculty of Law -- 39. Managing electoral violence through constructive use of social media: Transforming and empowering vulnerable urban youth in Kenya; Joyce W. Gikandi: Christine W. Njuguna, Joan Kabaria- Muriithi, Lucy Kathuri-Ogola -- 40. Managing Conflict in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for the African Union;Victor H Mlambo: University of Johannesburg School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy, Ernest Toochi Aniche, Department of Political Science, and Mandla Mfundo Masuku, School of Built Environment and Development Studies -- 41. Through the Afrocentricity Lens: Terror and Insurgency and Implications for Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Reference from Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique; Daniel N. Mlambo, Tshwane University of Technology -- 42. Insurgency in Mozambique: Incorporating NATO's Article 5 to the Region's Quest for Collective Defence;Victor H Mlambo: University of Johannesburg School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy, and Mfundo Mandla Masuku: School of Built Environment and Development Studies, and Daniel N. Mlambo: Department of Public Management.

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