TY - CHAP

T1 - Mainstreaming Peace Studies in African Higher Learning Institutions

T2 - Lessons from Tanzania

AU - Mutalemwa, George

AU - Trochemowitz, Sarah

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The ‘Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa’ project by ACUHIAM is an example of the current trend in higher learning institutions (HLIs) in Africa to implement peace studies in their academic programmes. Until now, peace studies is still limited and accessible to few institutions while remaining a specialized field of study. Thus, the main aim of the project is to mainstream peace studies across Africa. However, instead of only contributing to this trend, this project aims at strengthening universities’ social responsibility within society to address social challenges, and to promote active citizenship and civil participation. In order to enable inclusive social exchange and dialogue about peace, various interests and needs have to be taken into account. In this research, we analyzed the perceptions of 100 respondents of St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) about the relevance of peace studies, their interests and needs, already existing programmes, and local and traditional African approaches. We argue that adequate peace education has to include various local interests and needs of respondents. In order to be considered as relevant and appropriate, and to be able to contribute to sustainable learning that strengthens peace infrastructures, peace education needs meaningful content, which includes social exchange and dialogue.

AB - The ‘Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa’ project by ACUHIAM is an example of the current trend in higher learning institutions (HLIs) in Africa to implement peace studies in their academic programmes. Until now, peace studies is still limited and accessible to few institutions while remaining a specialized field of study. Thus, the main aim of the project is to mainstream peace studies across Africa. However, instead of only contributing to this trend, this project aims at strengthening universities’ social responsibility within society to address social challenges, and to promote active citizenship and civil participation. In order to enable inclusive social exchange and dialogue about peace, various interests and needs have to be taken into account. In this research, we analyzed the perceptions of 100 respondents of St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT) about the relevance of peace studies, their interests and needs, already existing programmes, and local and traditional African approaches. We argue that adequate peace education has to include various local interests and needs of respondents. In order to be considered as relevant and appropriate, and to be able to contribute to sustainable learning that strengthens peace infrastructures, peace education needs meaningful content, which includes social exchange and dialogue.

KW - ACUHIAM

KW - Higher education

KW - Peace studies

KW - Sustainable development

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140953219&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/694703ea-abcb-39a6-8012-77de3362ed5d/

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-92474-4_25

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-92474-4_25

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85140953219

SN - 978-3-030-92473-7

T3 - Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development

SP - 299

EP - 321

BT - Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa

A2 - Spiegel, Egon

A2 - Mutalemwa, George

A2 - Liu, Cheng

A2 - Kurtz, Lester R.

PB - Springer Nature AG

ER -