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“Peace is not a free gift”: Indigenous conceptions of peace among the Guji-Oromo in Southern Ethiopia

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2018
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Debelo, A. R., & Jirata, T. J. (2018). “Peace is not a free gift”: Indigenous conceptions of peace among the Guji-Oromo in Southern Ethiopia. Northeast African Studies, 18, 201–230. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.18.1-2.0201

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Abstract

Indigenous African knowledge of building and maintaining peace is not well known and has not been much used in the dominant modern mechanisms of conflict resolution. With the aim of addressing this limitation, this article analyzes the broader conceptualization of peace and peace building among the Guji-Oromo in southern Ethiopia. The Guji-Oromo are keenly aware that their existence as a society depends on the maintenance of peace (nagaa) among them as a community and between them and God as well as between them and their natural and

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  • Debelo, Asebe Regassa
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  • Jirata, Tadesse Jaleta
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18

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1-2

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201

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230

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History, Cultural Studies

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English

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2018-10-01

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2023-03-02

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0740-9133

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© 2023 Michigan State University. This work originally appeared in 2019, Vol. 18, No. 1-2, 2018, 201-230.

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Debelo, A. R., & Jirata, T. J. (2018). “Peace is not a free gift”: Indigenous conceptions of peace among the Guji-Oromo in Southern Ethiopia. Northeast African Studies, 18, 201–230. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.18.1-2.0201

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