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Towards global peace and sustainability: Role of education in peace-building in the great lakes region of sub-saharan Africa

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dc.creator Ndijuye, Laurent Gabriel
dc.creator Tandika, Pambas Basil
dc.date 2020-11-25T07:58:37Z
dc.date 2020-11-25T07:58:37Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-27T11:00:18Z
dc.date.available 2021-03-27T11:00:18Z
dc.identifier Ndijuye, L. G., & Tandika, P. B. (2020). Towards global peace and sustainability: role of education in peace-building in the Great Lakes Region of Sub-Saharan Africa. In Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development. IntechOpen.
dc.identifier DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.92417
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2608
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2608
dc.description Full text article. Also available at https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/towards-global-peace-and-sustainability-role-of-education-in-peace-building-in-the-great-lakes-regio
dc.description The Great Lakes Region of sub-Saharan Africa is well known for being volatile and turbulent in terms of peace and stability. For over 60 years, almost all countries in the region have experienced some kind of political and social turmoil such as civil war, coup de tat, and genocides. In 1960, the first democratically elected Congolese prime minister was assassinated. There were unprecedented social and political havoc in a nearby “other Congo” characterized by power struggle between various political and ethnic factions in the post-independence Congo Brazzaville. In Burundi and Rwanda, ethnic tensions between the Tutsi and Hutu engulfed the developmental dreams of nationalist freedom fighters until 2015. Though arguably stable, Tanzania has experienced its own share of socio-political messy including the 1998 Mwembechai and 2001 Pemba massacres. Efforts to build a sense of sustainable peace and development based on mutual understanding and socio-political harmony has brought limited success. In all these countries, the missing link in building sustainable peace and security has been a lack of education. The chapter intends to fill this gap by critically analyzing the potential role of basic education, especially pre-primary and early grades education, in sustainable peace-building in the sub-Saharan context.
dc.language en
dc.publisher IntechOpen
dc.subject Peace
dc.subject Social turmoil
dc.subject Political turmoil
dc.subject Civil war
dc.subject Coup de tat
dc.subject Genocides
dc.subject Sub-Saharan Africa
dc.subject Education
dc.subject Security
dc.subject Great lakes
dc.subject Political stability
dc.subject Political instability
dc.subject Hutu Tutsi
dc.subject Rwanda
dc.subject Burundi
dc.subject Congo
dc.subject DRC
dc.title Towards global peace and sustainability: Role of education in peace-building in the great lakes region of sub-saharan Africa
dc.type Book chapter


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