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" Peacemaking in Africa and Nobel Peace Prize 2019: "
Samwel Odhiambo Oando, Shirley Gabriella Achieng’, Samwel Odhiambo Oando, et al.
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AL
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1083607
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LA127236
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10.1163/1821889X-12340031
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English
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Samwel Odhiambo Oando
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Shirley Gabriella Achieng’
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Peacemaking in Africa and Nobel Peace Prize 2019: [Article] : The Role of Ahmed Abiy Ali in resolving the Ethiopia–Eritrea Cross-Border Conflict\ Samwel Odhiambo Oando, Shirley Gabriella Achieng’, Samwel Odhiambo Oando, et al.
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Leiden: Brill
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The African Review
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2021
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48/1
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22–51
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Conflicts globally have reportedly declined even though the number of African countries plagued by internal cross border strife has increased. Given this trend, the African peace and security architecture has evolved considerably over the past decade, culminating in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize – to one of the key actors in peace-making process, Ahmed Abiy Ali. Hence, this paper explores how the inter-state conflicts in Africa, such as the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict, reflect some colonial continuities of violence. We, therefore, stipulate the justification for the Nobel Peace Prize to illustrate how norms evolve, and further, how identities are constituted in peace-making. This, we argue, is parallel to other situations in African countries as manifested through identity, legitimacy, and authority in shaping political decisions, within the mutually constitutive relationships between agents and political structures. The paper, therefore, situates the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea into the African context using a model of the decisive action by Abiy, with limited Western influence towards peace, hence providing rationale for subaltern voices and indigenous peace processes in Africa. Conflicts globally have reportedly declined even though the number of African countries plagued by internal cross border strife has increased. Given this trend, the African peace and security architecture has evolved considerably over the past decade, culminating in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize – to one of the key actors in peace-making process, Ahmed Abiy Ali. Hence, this paper explores how the inter-state conflicts in Africa, such as the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict, reflect some colonial continuities of violence. We, therefore, stipulate the justification for the Nobel Peace Prize to illustrate how norms evolve, and further, how identities are constituted in peace-making. This, we argue, is parallel to other situations in African countries as manifested through identity, legitimacy, and authority in shaping political decisions, within the mutually constitutive relationships between agents and political structures. The paper, therefore, situates the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea into the African context using a model of the decisive action by Abiy, with limited Western influence towards peace, hence providing rationale for subaltern voices and indigenous peace processes in Africa.
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African context
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African Studies
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Ethiopia–Eritrea conflict
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General
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indigenous efforts
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Nobel Peace Prize
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peace-making
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10.1163/1821889X-12340031
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