Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Cultural frameworks for conflict resolution and peace building are basedon norms and values of the people. These set acceptable standards ofbehaviour for everyone in the community. They are enforced by the family,the headman, and the Chief following democratic principles before a verdictis reached. This ensured justice and ownership of community values andnorms. Therefore, strategies or policies that ignore values and norms inpeace building risk being totally irrelevant. This paper appraised the roleof culture in Peace Building in Botswana. The paper submitted that theintellectuals must examine cultural traditions and myths by deconstructingexclusionist myths and by reconstructing a more pluralist, inclusive set ofcultural myths and traditions in Botswana.Keywords: , , ,
Author: Kgosietsile Maripe
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2183368479