Beyond Mediation
Exploring Indigenous Models, Narratives, and Contextualization
Abstract
This book offers narrative analysis theory as a vehicle to understand indigenous mediation. The conceptual basis for this manuscript is the undisputed urgent need to understand mediation from a conflict transformation perspective highlighting the nexus between indigenous justice, forgiveness and trauma healing.
This book is based on the assumptions that local communities have the tools/capabilities that they need to build stable and enduring peaceful co-existence. These capacities have been weakened by the political elite and bankrupt/corrupt leadership approaches that must be rejected through empowerment and rigorous mediation brigades at the local level. The last chapter in the manuscript proposes a research center for indigenous justice, forgiveness and trauma healing in East Africa that will guarantee decades of scholarship and research around this subject in East Africa and beyond.
Schlagworte
NGOs Peacebuilding Trauma Indigenous Diaspora Displacement Forgiveness Conflict Conflict Transformation Healing- i–xiv Preface i–xiv
- 173–178 Conclusion 173–178
- 179–194 Notes 179–194
- 195–206 Index 195–206