| Reconciliation Processes in Africa: Conferences and Scholarly Articles |
| This collection of Internet resources includes access to web sites providing selected proceedings of reconciliation conferences and scholarly articles on reconciliation processes in the African countries. Although selective, inclusion of a site by no means constitutes
endorsement by the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Every source listed here was successfully tested before being added to the list. Users, however, should be aware that a successful connection may sometimes require several attempts.
For additional research and bibliographic materials on reconciliation processes in African countries consult the Library's online catalog.
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| 2004-2005 AFRICA SYMPOSIUM ON NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION (http://www.iimcr.org/) |
| Each year, the International Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution (IIMCR), in cooperation with George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and local universities, runs a series of month-long Student Symposia on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. The IIMCR is a Washington, DC based, non-profit institution whose mission “is to promote the use of peaceful conflict resolution techniques among a generation of future leaders through the design and implementation of unique programs and services.”
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| CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION (http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/) |
| Founded in 1968, the Centre for Conflict Resolution, based at the University of Cape Town, seeks to contribute towards a just peace in South Africa and in Africa by promoting constructive, creative and co-operative approaches to the resolution of conflict and the reduction of violence. It has developed an international reputation and has solid expertise in training, mediation, and policy research and development.
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| CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION (http://www.csvr.org.za/projects.htm) |
| The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), a multi-disciplinary South African non-governmental organization, dedicated since its inception in 1989 to making a meaningful contribution to peaceful and fundamental transformation in South Africa, and the Southern African region, operates in the following program areas: criminal justice, gender, peace building, transition and reconciliation, victim empowerment, and youth violence prevention.
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| CONCILIATION RESOURCES (http://www.c-r.org/) |
| “Serves as an international resource for local organizations pursuing peacebuilding and conflict resolution initiatives....main aim is to support groups working at community, national and international levels to prevent violence or transform armed conflict into opportunities for social, political and economic development based on more just relationships.”
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| CONFERENCE OF RECONCILIATION AND HEALING BETWEEN THE DIDINGA PEOPLE AND THE SPLM/A WITNESSED BY THE PEOPLES OF KAPOETA, TORIT AND MAGWI COUNTIES AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DINKA COMMUNITY (http://www.gurtong.com/downloads/Chukudum%5FPeace%5Fconference.html) |
| “A Record of the Chukudum Crisis Peace Conference Which Took Place in Nakwatom Kapoeta County Equatoria Region New Sudan Between the 8th & 12th of August, 2002.”
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| CONGREGATIONAL HEALING: LESSONS FROM AFRICA / BY KARL DORTZBACH (http://www.commongroundjournal.org/v01n01/v01n01p1.html) |
| “Nyirarukundo was a Hutu Presbyterian pastor in his 70s. He was known in his community as a man of God who loved his flock. But the love was severely tested one day when six Tutsis came knocking on his door seeking his protection from the savage militias who were hunting them.”
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| THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOUTH AFRICA’S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION; PERCEPTIONS OF XHOSA, AFRIKANER, AND ENGLISH SOUTH AFRICANS, by Jay A. Vora and Erika Vora.
(http://jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/34/3/301) |
| Article appeared in Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 301-322, 2004.
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| EISA - THE ELECTORAL INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (http://www.eisa.org.za/index.html) |
| “Promoting credible elections and democratic governance in Africa.” One of its program areas is conflict management, democracy and electoral education.
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| ENDNOTES- to - Sustaining the Peace in Angola: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration, by João Gomes and Imogen Parsons
(http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No83/Notes.html) |
| Bibliography cited on-line separately from the article published in Monograph, no. 83, April 2003.
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| EQUIDAD, SOCIAL Y ECONÓMICA (http://network.idrc.ca/es/ev-4465-201-1-DO%5FTOPIC.html) |
| “Comparative research on how Southern African countries have managed their political transitions is scarce. Information in Africa on how communities and civil society have dealt and are dealing with transition is even scarcer. This project will address a neglected but important area, through a comparative study of five Southern African countries, namely, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.”
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| THE FREETOWN CONFERENCE ON ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS FOR VIOLATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN LAW IN SIERRA LEONE
(http://www.sierra-leone.org/npwj0200.html) |
| Held February 20-22, 2001, the aim of the Conference was “to provide a vehicle for the exploration of mechanisms to provide accountability for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during the course of the conflict. The focus was on the two mechanisms envisaged for Sierra Leone, namely the Special Court and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the interaction between those institutions. An additional intention was to explore how traditional or customary justice could be incorporated into or operate alongside those mechanisms”.
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| INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES (http://www.iss.co.za/) |
| “Our mission is to conceptualise, inform and enhance the debate on human security in Africa in order to support policy formulation and decision making at all levels towards the enhancement of human security for all in Africa.”
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| LA COMMISSION VÉRITÉ ET RÉCONCILIATION AU BURUNDI: UNE INSTITUTION PRÉMATURÉE? / BY LAURENT KAVAKURE
(http://www.arib.info/KavakureCVR.htm) |
| Issued in French by the Association de Réflexion et d'Information sur le Burundi, in May 2003, the essay describes the goals of the proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be established in Burundi.
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| NATIONAL CHURCH LEADERS CONFERENCE (http://www.churchworldservice.org/news/Liberia/liberian-church-leaders.html) |
| Presentations and workshops of the conference covered issues such as: humanitarian and security situation; the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration program; the role of the church in post-conflict reconciliation; the role of women in conflict resolution; relationship building among churches; and the role of the Liberian Council of Churches within the Inter-Religious Council of Liberia
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| NATIONAL RECONCILIATION: A JOINT REPORT (http://www.federo.com/Pages/National%5FReconciliation.html) |
| This report consists of the following individually authored essays: “Mato Oput”; “Challenges of Reconciliation”; “The Necessity of Apologies”; “Truth is the Key to genuine Reconciliation”; “The Emotions vs. Intellectual Level of Public Debate”; “The Need for a Gwanga Vision”; “Reconciliation does not come easy.”
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| NORTHERN UGANDA: JUSTICE IN CONFLICT (http://www.africanrights.unimondo.org/html/ugand001.html) |
| Dated January 20, 2000, this lengthy, descriptive press release announces that “African Rights’ latest report, Northern Uganda: Justice in Conflict suggests that the people of the north are both willing and able to make a key contribution to peace-making efforts and to re-establishing the rule of law in the region. ... In the midst of a protracted crisis, justice was beyond the reach of most people, but they did not resort to ‘mob’ rule. Rather they have shown a commitment to peaceful methods of dispute resolution.”
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| PEACE BUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN POST CONFLICT ANGOLA: NDGOS NEGOTIATING THEORY AND PRACTICE, by Róisín Shannon. (http://www.trocaire.org/) |
| This article appears in the Trócaire Development Review, Dublin, 2003/2004, pp. 33-55, under the ‘Policy and Advocacy’ category of this website.
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| A RECONCILIATION PROJECT WITH RUANDESE HUTU AND TUTSI / BY PAT PATFOORT (BELGIUM)
(http://www.copri.dk/copri/ipra/Conf-papers/Patfoort-CO.doc) |
| This report was presented for the Commission on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building at the
18th General Conference of the International Peace Research Association, "Challenges for Peace Research in the 21st Century : A Dialogue of Civilisations," in Tampere, Finland, August 5-9, 2000. The author describes a non-governmental project to bring together Rwandan refugees living in Belgium. “Two years ago we started to work with a group of them, men and women, of all ages, of very different backgrounds and education, and as well Tutsi as Hutu. The group meets every month, with 12-15 people present at every meeting. The work methods used are lectures, storytelling (of historical exemples [sic] and own experiences) and discussion, analysis exercices, [sic] conceptual and experiential exercices[sic], role plays, symbolic games.”
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| REFLECTIONS ON THE NATIONAL SOMALI RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE: Ahmed Isse Awa. (http://www.ossrea.net/publications/newsletter/oct04/article26.htm) |
| Abstract: After fourteen years of civil war, anarchy and statelessness, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) of the Horn of African countries hosted the Somali National Reconciliation Conference in Kenya to find a lasting solution to the Somali problem by creating an all-inclusive government of national unity for Somalia. The Conference, which had experienced a turbulent ride from the inception and had come close to collapsing at several junctures, took two years to conclude. It has now successfully culminated in the formation of a Parliament and election of a Speaker and a President. This article presents a synopsis of the history of this Conference and the challenges facing the new Government of Somalia. |
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| REPORT ON PEACE-MAKING INITIATIVE IN SOMALILAND
APRIL 1995-JANUARY1997
(http://www.c-r.org/pubs/occ%5Fpapers/occ%5Fsomali.shtml) |
| Background: In a national conference organized by the Somali National Movement (SNM) in Burao, Somaliland, Somalilanders took the momentous decision, on 18 May 1991, to withdraw from the union with Somalia and to reinstate the Republic of Somaliland that pre-existed the union with Somalia. Since that time there has been relative peace in the country except two setbacks in Burao and Berbera that were quickly brought under control. |
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| THE ROLE OF FORGIVENESS IN RECONSTRUCTING SOCIETY AFTER CONFLICT / MARCIA BYROM HARTWELL (http://www.jha.ac/articles/a048.htm) |
| Written in 1998 and published in the electronic Journal of Humanitarian Assistance in 2000, the author reviews the professional literature on the role of forgiveness in reconciliation, particularly in the cases of Rwanda and South Africa.
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| SCHOLARS OF PEACE-THE ISLAMIC TRADITION AND HISTORICAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN TIMBUKTU (http://www.sum.uio.no/research/mali/timbuktu/research/articles/conflictresolution.pdf) |
| This report discusses the methodology and processes of reconciliation used traditionally by African scholars and leaders of the Timbuktu region when managing community and government conflicts in perpetuating peace. Report by The Special Conflict Resolution Research Group in Mali Dr. Mahmoud Zouber, Abdoul Kader Haidara, Mamadou Diallo, Dr. Stephanie Diakité
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| SOUTH AFRICAS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION, by Graeme Simpson & Paul van Zyl. (http://www.csvr.org.za/papers/papgspv.htm) |
| This article appears in Temps Modernes, no. 585, pp. 394-407, a publication of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), a multi-disciplinary South African non-governmental organization, dedicated since its inception in 1989 to making a meaningful contribution to peaceful and fundamental transformation in South Africa, and the Southern African region.
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| SUSTAINING THE PEACE IN ANGOLA: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration, by João Gomes Porto and Imogen Parsons (http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/Monographs/No83/Contents.html) |
| Published in Monograph (Institute for Security Studies’ Monographs for the African Human Security Initiative,) no. 83, April 2003.
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| TRUTH, LIES AND RITUAL. PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION IN SIERRA LEONE (http://asc.leidenuniv.nl/events/event328954389.htm) |
| A conference program spo sored by the The African Studies Centre in Leiden Africa Today Seminar... “Sierra Leone is currently experimenting with a variety of transitional mechanisms of justice, including a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As the comparative literature on truth commissions indicates, the truth is not always told in these bodies, and truth is not always conducive to reconciliation”. The seminar analyses the power of ritual to transform, arguing that ‘ritual may be more important to reconciliation than truth in Sierra Leone and elsewhere’.
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| UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE (http://www.usip.org/) |
| Established in 1984, the United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts. It meets its congressional mandate through programs, including research grants, fellowships, professional training, secondary through graduate level education programs, conferences and workshops, library services, and publications.
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| VIOLENCE, RECONCILIATION AND IDENTITY: THE REINTEGRATION OF LORD’S RESISTANCE ARMY CHILD ABDUCTEES IN NORTHERN UGANDA / ANGELA VEALE AND AKI STAVROU (http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/Monographs/No92/Contents.html) |
| Issued by the Institute for Security Studies (South Africa) as monograph no. 92, November 2003, each chapter is available separately in PDF format. |
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