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Community Reconciliation and Post-Conflict Reconstruction for Peace

2008
Eastern & Southern Africa
West & Central Africa
Liberia
Topics
Agency & Participation
Accountability & Shifting Power
Violence
Community & Family-Level Interventions
Michael Wessells

The purpose of this chapter is to examine diverse methods of community reconciliation and peacebuilding following armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. Three case studies from Angola, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, respectively, emphasize reconciling formerly recruited young people, defined as people under 25 years of age, with communities in rural areas. Although the case studies emphasize the importance of community empowerment and reliance on local cultural understandings and practices, they also point out the value of constructive partnerships between Western psychology and local practices.

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Book Chapter
Community Reconciliation and Post-Conflict Reconstruction for Peace
Author(s):
Michael Wessells
Year of Publication
2008

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