Culture of Peace and Nonviolence

Abstract

The “Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa” project funded by the Lower Saxony state government (Germany) is not intended to serve (new) cultural imperialism. It sees itself as a transnational, transcontinental partnership project under the direction of the German project manager together with a Tanzanian, Chinese and US cooperation partner and a project coordinator from the Ivory Coast. It thus benefits from a network of proven peace researchers on the horizon of a global academic world. The contributions of almost all African contributors, compiled in the first phase of the project, focus on a large number of areas of conflict, but usually address peace as a central challenge without explicitly associating it with nonviolence. In terms of the United Nations Millennium Decade 2001–2010 “Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World”, this will therefore be the task of a follow-up project.