Global Book Launch: Innovations in Peace and Security in Africa

This book is a fantastic achievement by the editors, bringing together African expertise to examine the local and global dimensions of peace. The book is a direct result of a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, that convened African academics and practitioners with diverse specialisations.

The authors’ contributions foreground local voices across a broad scope of inquiry, including rural community structures, health, trauma, sexual violence, peacekeeping and cybersecurity. African knowledge is essential to understanding peace on the continent – the complexities of conflict and insecurity, the lived

experiences of individuals and communities, and their responses to such phenomena. This analytical approach underpins the book, creating fertile ground to identify and develop innovations that hold the promise for sustainable African solutions.

The Centre for Applied Social Research (CeASR) is a university-wide Research Centre which orchestrates interdisciplinary research across the social sciences in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.