Summary

AfroSymbiocity as a Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa is rooted in dual psychological and afro-centered perspectives, which act as methodological and analytical frameworks for the modeling of a new paradigm in conflict resolution. The book comes at a most opportune and auspicious moment when despite declining violent conflicts and an increase in stable democracies and economies, the African landscape is still littered with and bedeviled by internecine squabbles at national, sub-regional and even continental levels.

Cases in point would include amongst others, Cameroon, the DRC, Southern Sudan, Mozambique, and Nigeria, with the resurgence of secessionist impulses, violent extremism, intolerance, exclusivism, and hatred. It is in this brewing maelstrom that AfroSymbiocity as psychocultural paradigm for conflict resolution not only highlights the psychological factors that mediate by enabling, triggering, sustaining, and reinforcing the conflict ethos, but ventures into praxis, including a logical sequence of skills for effective and efficient conflict resolution.

AfroSymbiocity as a Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa is an attempt at transcending ‘extrinsic conflict causing variables’ by focusing on the Human Factor ethos, the psychological  factors of consciousness, thought, feeling, and action.

AfroSymbiocity proposes a rational, critical and logical paradigm based on an authentically African ontology, epistemology, and ethics, as means for describing, explaining, and managing conflicts in Africa and beyond. The paradigm, “AfroSymbiocity”, is Sub-Saharan African in scope, but will have universal relevance.

The book transcends theory by demonstrating the application of traditional African peace and conflict resolution strategies through considering a historical personage, King Moshoeshoe 1, who effectively used authentic African conflict resolution strategies to forge harmony in Southern Africa, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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