Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers narrative analysis theory as a vehicle to understand indigenous mediation. The conceptual basis for this manuscript is the undisputed urgent need to understand mediation from a conflict transformation perspective highlighting the nexus between indigenous justice, forgiveness and trauma healing. Embracing indigenous approaches, while rejecting/problematizing impractical and impossible western approaches in favor of local and when applicable cross-cultural approaches could provide enduring mediation outcomes.
This book is based on the assumptions that local communities have the tools/capabilities that they need to build stable and enduring peaceful co-existence. These capacities have been weakened by the political elite and bankrupt/corrupt leadership approaches that must be rejected through empowerment and rigorous mediation brigades at the local level. The last chapter in the manuscript proposes a research center for indigenous justice, forgiveness and trauma healing in East Africa that will guarantee decades of scholarship and research around this subject in East Africa and beyond.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Indigenous Mediation Background and Illustrations
Chapter 1: Definition of Indigenous Mediation
Chapter 2: Indigenous Mediation Models
Chapter 3: Indigenous Mediation Stories
Part II: Three Major Barriers to Indigenous Mediation
Chapter 4: Violence
Chapter 5: Injustice
Chapter 6: Un-forgiveness
Part III: Contextualization of Mediation
Chapter 7: Hybrid and Cross-Cultural Reflections
Chapter 8: Sustaining Indigenous Mediation through Narratives
Chapter 9: Localized Restorative Justice
Part IV: Building Enduring Foundations of Holistic Wellness
Chapter 10: Trauma Healing
Chapter 11: Vision 2075 and Beyond
Conclusion: Moving Beyond Mediation Matters
Glossary of Terms
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