Lost Peace or Religious Violence and Identity Crisis in Africa

Jaouad Radouani ()
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Jaouad Radouani: University Mohamed Premier

A chapter in Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa, 2022, pp 41-47 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Some religiously based belief systems have recently had the chance to reassert power and space among the most effective philosophies “preoccupying” and “directing” mankind. One of these conspicuous authoritative opinions has been Islamism (It is noteworthy to draw the attention of the reader to the difference meant here between Islam and Islamism. The use of the word Islamism has nothing to do with Islam. For, Islamism, in this reading, stands for a refused ideological movement that claims belonging to Islam while its strategy of work and background ideology neither stand on the real teachings of Islam nor do they represent it. Islamism, as made clear through the identity crisis in Africa analysis provided in the essay, is the main source of many different evils that hit and primarily affect Africa and fragment it itself.). The last ism, in its endeavor to engage itself and corner the scene, depends on some exclusive historical, economic, and sociopolitical conditions. Moreover, its appearance, by one means or another, destabilized the idea of identity in Africa and the rest of the world. Aside from les raisons d’êtres that conveyed Islamism to the fore and helped it survive, it managed, in a way, equivocal as it is and more often not giving advocated and clear purposes behind activity, branch an emergency at the level people and social orders characterize themselves in Africa. This situation, or impasse, its temperament, inceptions, and consequences on peace and, ultimately, identity-crisis are what this chapter seeks to discuss. The goal is to consider the issue of identity-crisis, in Africa, in connection with the appearance of Islamism as a disengaging religious belief system.

Keywords: Africa; Peace; Violence; Religion; Identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92474-4_7

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