Peace infrastructures vary hugely in sophistication and level. The examples examined in this book range from tiny structures which help resolve conflicts between individuals and within community organisations, peace committees which serve local communities, peace education and peace club programmes in schools, mediation mechanisms to prevent election violence and to ministries of peace to coordinate government and non-government efforts in peacemaking and peacebuilding. The overall finding is that the development of peace infrastructures at all levels has great potential to build cultures of peace.
1. It is the only book available which documents the experience and potential of nonviolence in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa.
2. It makes a persuasive case for the development of various peace infrastructures in order to make peace sustainable.
3. It explains how strategic planning can be utilised, both to bring about change and to institutionalise it.