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Listen, Analyze, Mobilize: The African Origins and Promise of Peace Studies

In: Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa

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  • Lester R. Kurtz

    (George Mason University)

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Nonviolent civil resistance—and some aspects of peace studies—were born in Africa with Mahatma Gandhi’s campaigns against South Africa’s pass laws for Indians in the country. Three components or stages characterize Gandhi’s African Satyagraha: listen, analyze, and mobilize, which can also be applied to peace studies more generally. Gandhi took those African lessons with him to the Indian Freedom struggle and finally universalized them for an approach to nonviolent struggle that transcended his earlier experiments. Archbishop Tutu’s efforts to revitalize the depths of African indigenous knowledge—especially the concept of Ubuntu—and apply it to the violence of apartheid are predecessors to a new generation of African scholars whose voices we need to hear and heed.

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  • Lester R. Kurtz, 2022. "Listen, Analyze, Mobilize: The African Origins and Promise of Peace Studies," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Egon Spiegel & George Mutalemwa & Cheng Liu & Lester R. Kurtz (ed.), Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa, pages 13-16, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-92474-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92474-4_4
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