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This chapter returns to the two questions which the book addresses. First, what kinds of initiatives offer the greatest potential to move a society towards the peace which its people want? The consistent answer from Chapters 7 to 13 is to develop infrastructures for peace at all levels, from interpersonal to government ministry levels. And second, how can these initiatives be strengthened and scaled up if they already exist, or established if they do not? This is the question which this final chapter addresses and the short answer is to develop infrastructures for peace and to use strategic planning.
Mediel Hove, Associate Professor, University of Zimbabwe; e-mail: medielhove@yahoo.co.uk.
Geoff Harris, Professor, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa; e-mail: eoffreyh@dut.ac.za.
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Hove, M., Harris, G. (2019). Let a Thousand Peace Infrastructures Bloom. In: Hove, M., Harris, G. (eds) Infrastructures for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14694-8_15
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