ABSTRACT This article explores the African religious, cultural and philosophical dimensions of peace, conflict and conflict transformation. It seeks to examine African traditional religious and philosophical ideas as resources for the promotion of peace and justice and their implications for intra-state and inter-state conflict resolution activities. Specifically, it examines how the cultural dimensions of peace and conflict and its nonviolent resolution as expressed in the traditional religious and philosophical oral texts (the documented proverbs and symbols) of the Akan people of Ghana can contribute to our understanding and mechanisms for conflict transformation and peacebuilding strategies in Africa. It argues strongly for the promotion of some of the understudied positive elements in the religious and philosophical traditions of Africa for finding solutions or ‘cures’ for contemporary conflicts in Africa such as electoral disputes and internal ethnic conflicts, and their peaceful resolutions. Hence, it demonstrates how the African traditional methods for conflict resolution when effectively developed can substitute (or complement) in critical situations when the formal political institutions such as the Judiciary becomes ineffective. Finally, the study demonstrates how indigenous conflict transformation strategies can infuse some innovations, creativity and sustainability to the national and international attempts at resolving intractable African conflicts.

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非洲宗教哲学中的和平、冲突和冲突转化概念

摘要 本文探讨了和平、冲突和冲突转变的非洲宗教、文化和哲学层面。它旨在研究作为促进和平与正义的资源的非洲传统宗教和哲学思想及其对国家内部和国家间冲突解决活动的影响。具体而言，它研究了加纳阿坎人传统宗教和哲学口头文本（记录在案的谚语和符号）中表达的和平与冲突的文化层面及其非暴力解决方案如何有助于我们理解冲突和冲突转化的机制和机制。非洲建设和平战略。它强烈主张促进非洲宗教和哲学传统中一些未被充分研究的积极因素，以寻找非洲当代冲突（例如选举争端和内部种族冲突）的解决方案或“治愈方法”，并以和平方式解决这些问题。因此，它展示了非洲解决冲突的传统方法在有效发展后如何在诸如司法机构等正式政治机构失效的危急情况下替代（或补充）。最后，该研究展示了土著冲突转型战略如何为解决棘手的非洲冲突的国家和国际尝试注入一些创新、创造力和可持续性。