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.creatorNdijuye, Laurent Gabriel
dc.creatorTandika, Pambas Basil
dc.date2020-11-25T07:58:37Z
dc.date2020-11-25T07:58:37Z
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-27T11:00:18Z
dc.date.available2021-03-27T11:00:18Z
dc.descriptionFull 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.descriptionThe 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.identifierNdijuye, 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.identifierDOI: 10.5772/intechopen.92417
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2608
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2608
dc.languageen
dc.publisherIntechOpen
dc.subjectPeace
dc.subjectSocial turmoil
dc.subjectPolitical turmoil
dc.subjectCivil war
dc.subjectCoup de tat
dc.subjectGenocides
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africa
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectSecurity
dc.subjectGreat lakes
dc.subjectPolitical stability
dc.subjectPolitical instability
dc.subjectHutu Tutsi
dc.subjectRwanda
dc.subjectBurundi
dc.subjectCongo
dc.subjectDRC
dc.titleTowards global peace and sustainability: Role of education in peace-building in the great lakes region of sub-saharan Africa
dc.typeBook chapter

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