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Title: | Do grassroots approaches and mobilization for development contribute to post-conflict peacebuilding? The experience of Northern Ghana |
Author: | Safunu, Banchani John-Paul |
Year: | 2012 |
Issue: | 26 |
Pages: | 47 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African Leadership Centre Monographs (ISSN 2312-9107) |
City of publisher: | Nairobi |
Publisher: | African Leadership Centre |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | peacebuilding popular participation Dagomba ethnic warfare Konkomba |
External link: | http://www.africanleadershipcentre.org/images/ALC_Monographs/ALC_Monograph_26.pdf |
Abstract: | Bottom-up approaches to peacebuilding in post-conflict societies contribute positively to the building of relations and reconciliation in ethnically divided societies. Using rassroots strategies in Northern Ghana after the 1994-95 civil strife proved largely successful in marshalling people from the grassroots for development in the region. The grassroots approaches however failed to create any institutional structures to sustain the fragile peace that was established. This study interrogates grassroots and local approaches to peacebuilding by challenging the simplistic assumption that by ensuring local participation and local ownership in the peacebuilding process grassroots approaches are flawless. By examining the benefits and challenges of the grassroots peacebuilding process in the Northern Region of Ghana, this study questions the extent to which local and grassroots approaches to peacebuilding are sustainable. The analysis is based on a careful review and critical interrogation of the burgeoning literature on peacebuilding. |