AFRICAN PROSPECTIVE ROLES FOR RECONCILIATION OF VIOLENCE AND ITS CONFLICTS RESOLUTION

Résumé

Africa as a continent has over the years been bedeviled with all kinds of armed violence, conflict, insecurity and civil wars. This contributes to human suffering and instructing poverty across the continent. This topic is dynamic, but the need is great, since reconciliation is among the most difficult challenges facing the unity of African future. Prevention and reduction of violent conflicts has become a key priority not only for African governments, but also for the Europeans and the rest of the world.Violent conflicts in Africa have left out thecontinent in a state of devastation, political instability and socio-economic stagnation. The purpose of this paper is to x-ray the roles which African leaders play and will play in reconciliation of violence towards bringing about a peaceful Africa future.This paper proposes and hopes that the contents can be of practical assistance in implementation of appropriate reconciliation process and approaches which all in turn support and strengthen appropriate democratic structures. The paper adoptsthe analytic method and concludes that traditional conflict resolution techniques such as mediation, reconciliation and negotiation as employed by Africans leaders in the past and present in conflict resolution.This offers great advantage for peaceful co-existence and harmonious relationships. Subsequently, these emerged a clarion call for African solution to African problems, with foreign intervention to play complementary roles. Apparently, the future of Africa lies on the implementation of agreement resolution uponreconciliation apparatus.