Peace, Safety and Security : African Perspectives. This item is unavailable.Peace, Safety and Security : African Perspectives

The universal quest for peace, safety, and security aptly captured in The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, approved by all United Nations Member States in 2015, serves as a collective outline for peace and prosperity for all citizens globally. Equally entrenched in the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals is Goal 16, which promotes Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. Yet the pursuit of Goal 16 is inadvertently hampered by social, economic, and political power struggles in the era of neoliberal globalisation. These struggles are experienced on a global scale but evidentially concentrated in Africa.
This book, mainly based on empirical data, provides fascinating insights into the situation in Africa. The insights related to intra-national conflicts, civil strife, and peacekeeping initiatives, as well as explanations for gender-based violence, xenophobia, food security, cyber security, student insecurities, and hostel violence. The insights captured in individual chapters are primarily from early career academics, supported by more seasoned peers and colleagues. The trajectory in the culmination of this publication lasted almost painstakingly fruitful 24 months. The data and analyses presented in each chapter are nuanced but embrace the golden thread of Peace and Security in Africa. The fascination with the book is further enriched by the individual lenses through which each narrative is captured. The vastness of topics introduces fresh insights and perspectives to the orthodox understanding of Peace and Security.

Nirmala Devi Gopal is a professor in criminology at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban. Her repertoire (more than 55 journal articles and book chapters) of research publications conforms to the South African Higher Education and Training accredited journal guidelines. Her current niche areas in research are peace and security and, more specifically, cybersecurity. Having served as an external examiner to various Ph.D. and Master’s Students on cybercrime and cybersecurity in various South African Universities contributed to her perspective on the nature and quality of research undertaken in South Africa within this field. She commenced her career in Basic Education and believes she is well-equipped for tertiary education learners and researchers.

Dasarath Chetty, a Project Executive at the EThekwini Municipality, is also currently a Visiting Professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Childhoods and Societies at Wuppertal University in Germany. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology an International Advisory Board Member of MAHSA University, KL, Malaysia and President of the International Sociological Association‘s Research Committee on Participation, Organisational Democracy and Self-Management.

Dipane Joseph Hlalele, a C2 NRF rated researcher, is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His current research interest draws from positive and community psychology as well as education and he therefore advocates for helpful, hopeful and respectful research. He is currently Ethics Chair: Human and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee at UKZN.

Gert Kruger, is currently a Research Professor in the School of Health Sciences at UKZN. His PhD lineage is traced back to Rudolf Criegee (Wutzburg) via Johan Dekker (Karlsruhe). The Dekkers introduced cage chemistry to South Africa, and Kruger actively pursues the synthesis, computational chemistry, and biotesting of cage compounds in the Catalysis and Peptide Research Unit at UKZN.