This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace. Following an essential review of several real-world conflict contexts on the African continent and attempts to come to terms with them critically as a first step, the book explores the lessons learned to date with regard to peace studies in Africa.

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Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Egon Spiegel holds the Chair of Practical Theology: Pedagogics of Religion and Pastoral Theology at the University of Vechta, Germany. Dr. George Mutalemwa is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at St. Augustine University of Tanzania, and Executive Secretary of the Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar. Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu is a Professor of History and holds the UNESCO Chair of Peace Studies at Nanjing University, China. Prof. Dr. Lester R. Kurtz is a Professor of Public Sociology at George Mason University, USA, currently teaching at its Mason Korea campus, South Korea. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Lacina Yéo, Director of the Department of German Studies at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Cocody-Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, and Founder and Managing Director of the Center for Research in Panafrican and Global Studies.