Searching for reconciliation - the intricacies of the African experience

Abstract

The experience of violence and life-after-violence is a universal one. It spans time and continents. Virtually every nation or social group was at some time or the other confronted by this. Examples all over the globe spring to mind. Uganda first had to live through the terror ofMilton Obote. Worse was to come under El Hadji Idi Amin in the 1970s. War amongst religious groups in Christian Europe divided and mauled millions to death in countries as far apart as Belgium, Ireland and Spain a couple of hundreds of years ago. One of these Christian conflicts persisted from 1179 until recently in Northern Ireland.