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Sylvester Ndzelen Berinyuy
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2025.01.002
Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy
Since 1960, there have been more than thirty UN peacekeeping missions across Africa, the most of any region in the context of the conflicts that have plagued the region for decades. It has become increasingly evident that official diplomacy is not enough to resolve these crises. Experience shows that given the people’s reliance on religion, religion has continued to act as a force of conflict prevention and resolution in the region. The role played by faith-based diplomats has gained the trust of the conflict parties such that it would be unwise for national and international actors to neglect their role in policy making and conflict prevention and resolution.
faith-based diplomacy, parallel diplomacy, religion, conflict prevention and resolution, sub-Saharan Africa, reconciliation, forgiveness
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