Reconciliation and Building a Sustainable Peace Competing Worldviews in South Africa and Beyond /

• Main Author: Bollaert, Cathy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
• Subjects: Human rights.; Criminology.; Peace.; Critical criminology.; Ethnology-Africa.; Human Rights and Crime .; Peace Studies.; Conflict Studies.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; African Culture.

This book explores how competing worldviews impact on intergroup relations and building a sustainable peace in culturally diverse societies. It raises the question of what happens in a culturally diverse society when competing values and ways of interpreting reality collide and what this means for p...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The significance of cultural diversity on peace-building in divided societies
• 2. The Rainbow Nation: Identity, intergroup relations and worldviews in South Africa
• 3. Anchoring concepts: sustainable peace, identity, culture and worldview
• 4. Worldview diversity within South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• 5. Exploring the diversity of worldviews in South Africa
• 6. Through the eyes of the 'other': interpretations of peace and requisites for building a sustainable peace
• 7. Transitional policies, group identity and intergroup relations
• 8. Contributions and recommendations of worldview for peace-building and reconciliation in South Africa and beyond. .