Weaving Peace: Essays on Peace, Governance and Conflict Transformation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Weaving Peace: Essays on Peace, Governance and Conflict Transformation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa provides a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on issues of peace, governance, and conflict transformation by academics and practitioners from eight partner institutions of the United Nations Mandated-University for Peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa. It is an essential tool for scholars and policymakers seeking contextual clarity behind the headlines about the nature and extent of conflicts in the region and how to go about transforming the region. It provides a rather nuanced perspective of the complexity of the peace/conflict dynamics of the region and underscores the inescapable truth of the need for a more indigenous and context-based approach to understanding the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Dr. Samuel Kale Ewusi is a Cameroonian assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at the United Nations Mandated-University for Peace where he teaches courses in political economy of peace and conflict studies and research methods in peace studies. He specializes in the socioeconomic dimensions of conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa.