Weaving the Web of Resilience: Managing Community Knowledge as Resource for Resilience and Lasting Peace in Africa

Abstract

Inspired by the need to find a lasting solution to violent conflict, the author inquires how African communities can
be resilient in the face of such conflict and at the same time serve as a building block for peace. It was found that a new peace-building architecture is needed that creates unlimited space for the full participation of African  communities, where the knowledge of a community is the centre point of a concentric circle that focuses on peace building. If suitable mechanisms are used, community knowledge can be managed to enable the free transmittance of knowledge as part of a collaborative network of relationships that forms a resilient web and bridges the gap  between African communities and other institutions to activate peace building.