Climate Change and Socio-political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene

This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding. It integrates environmental questions and factors that drive socio-political violence and climate change-induced violence in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Anthropocene.

· It demonstrates how international peace and global security are no longer solely grounded in conventional peacebuilding that has evolved from liberal to democratic peace theories, but rather in the complex, critical and synergic relations between peace studies and environmental studies. · It provides a pluridisciplinary body of knowledge that emphasises the need for food security, social climate, social good, social capital and sustainable development at the age of climate change and climate wars.

· It underscores the potential of peace ecology to reduce the Earth systems' vulnerability, to mitigate anthropogenic global warming's consequences on humanity, the ecosystem and biodiversity.

· It yields various models of peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive and climate-sensitive adaptation strategies to enhance the African Region's security and stability. Finally, this volume argues that planetary boundaries framework remains the safer space within which human and sustainable development can be pursued and attained, and future generations to thrive. A comprehensive and international response to socio-political violence and climate-change induced violence should take into account the vulnerability of individual countries, regions and the global world in order to achieve the dreams of a better future; that makes this book a cutting-edge scholarly work.

Auteur

Jean Chrysostome K. Kiyala (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the International Centre of Nonviolence in the Faculty of Management Sciences, Durban University of Technology (DUT), South Africa; Associate Professor and visiting lecturer at the University of Bandundu, Evangelical University in Africa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the University of Seychelles (Seychelles). He holds a PhD in Management Sciences specialising in Public Administration: Peace Studies, from DUT. His specialisations include child soldiers, restorative justice, transitional justice, post-conflict reconciliation and nation-building, civil society, peacebuilding and peace ecology. Norman Chivasa is currently a lecturer in the Department of Peace, Security and Society at the University of Zimbabwe after serving as a Research Associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Postdoctoral Fellow at Durban University of Technology (DUT), South Africa. He holds a Masters in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a PhD in Management Sciences Specialising in Public Administration: Peace Studies, from DUT. His research focuses on community peacebuilding and informal infrastructures for peace