Weaving the web of resilience : managing community knowledge as resource for resilience and lasting peace in Africa
Andreas Velthuizen · Africa Insight · 2014
Inspired by the need to find a lasting solution to violent conflict, the author inquires how African communities can be resilient in the face of such conflict and at the same time serve as a building block for peace. It was found that a new peace-building architecture is needed that creates unlimited space for the full participation of African communities, where the knowledge of a community is the centre point of a concentric circle that focuses on peace building. If suitable mechanisms are used, community knowledge can be managed to enable the free transmittance of knowledge as part of a collaborative network of relationships that forms a resilient web and bridges the gap between African communities and other institutions to activate peace building.