Conflict Management through African Indigenous Institutions: A Study of the Anyuaa Community
Conflict Management through African Indigenous Institutions: A Study of the Anyuaa Community
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通过非洲土著机构管理冲突：安尤阿社区的研究
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10.5430/wjss.v3n1p22
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2016
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Tasew Tafese
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Tasew Tafese
非洲传统社会与根深蒂固的文化事实紧密相连，老年人在解决问题、制定战略、塑造地方愿景方面发挥着重要作用，这些都是基于技能和智慧的。为了做到这一点，他们利用了他们过去代代相传的经验和知识。长老们积累的知识是从当地社区培养出来的土著知识。因此，老年人运用他们的本土知识进行发展规划和解决社会问题。为了达到本文的目的，作者选择了来自东非的Anyuaa社会，他们居住在埃塞俄比亚和南苏丹边境的甘贝拉。他们有被称为Nyieye和Kwaaro的传统机构来实施土著知识，以处理包括冲突在内的社会问题。因此，在本文的主体部分，土著知识的概念、冲突解决、土著知识在冲突解决中的作用、安育的传统制度，如贵族（Nyieya）和首领（Kwaaro），包括他们的冲突解决过程、补偿和净化。通过图片支持讨论，帮助我们轻松理解土著知识与解决冲突的相关联系。最后，本文提出结论，强调非洲传统机构如何通过其本土知识发挥其管理冲突的作用。
Traditional African societies are closely attached with deep-rooted cultural facts and elders play a major roles tosolve problems, create strategies and shape local visions based on skills and wisdoms. To do this, they use their pastexperience and knowledge which transmit from generation to generation. That accumulated knowledge of elders areindigenous knowledge which cultivated from the local community. Therefore, elders apply their indigenousknowledge for development planning as well as solving social problems. To obtain the purpose of this paper, theauthor selected the Anyuaa society from East Africa who are living in Ethiopia and South Sudan along the border viaGambella. They have traditional institutions known as Nyieye and Kwaaro to implement indigenous knowledge inorder to handling social problems including conflicts. Thus, in the body the paper, the concepts of indigenousknowledge, conflict resolution, roles of indigenous knowledge in conflict resolution, Anyuaa's traditional institutionssuch as the Noblship (Nyieya) and the headman (Kwaaro) including their conflict resolution process, compensationand purification are briefly discussed. The discussion supported by pictures that help us easily to understand therelevant linkage of indigenous knowledge to conflict resolution. Finally, conclusion is forwarded to accentuate howthe African traditional institutions play their role to manage conflicts through their indigenous knowledge.