ISSN 1012- 10801 Special Issue I 3« - v/ JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 1 with Community Development Journal: community aevetopmem i**.i»5:My<»r,ofpUfcl*,iion Editorial The Tlhabologang Experience BuksTireyling Building Cultural Synergy and Peace in South Africa Anna-Marie du Toil Community Managemcnl of Conflicts in Urban Benin Marcellin Chabi Benon The Positive Management of Conflicts in West Africa Enda GrafSahel and RENAPOP The role of NGOs in Democralisation and Education in Peace-time (Rwanda) C Nungwa Kuzwe Epidemic Violence and the Community: A Zimbabwean case study A P Reeler Wilderness Therapy with Militarised Youths in Traumatised Communities Gavin Robertson and Steven De Kiewit The Elim Care Group: Conflict in Community Development Styles Mokgadi Tlakula Conflict Management and Peace Building through Community Development Thulani Ndelu "A More Excellent Way:" Developing Goalilioas and Consensus through Informal Networking Alison Gilchrist Book Reviews I Volume 13 No 1 1998 No 1 I £ Vol i • I JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA School of Social Work, P/Bag 66022 Kopje, Harare, Zimbabwe The Journal publishes critical analyses of social development issues as they affect the poor and marginalised in society. 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Journal of Social Development in Africa Vol 13 No 1 1998 Editorial 3 Articles The Tlhabologang Experience: Starting with Volleyball Buks Greyling 7 Building Cultural Synergy and Peace in South Africa Anna-Marie du Toit 9 Community Management of National Conflicts in Urban Benin Marcellin Chabi Benon 23 The Positive Management of Conflicts in West Africa Enda GrafSahel and RENAPOP 29 The role of NGOs in Dcmocratisation and Education in Peace-time (Rwanda) C Nungwa Kuzwe 37 Epidemic Violence and the Community: A Zimbabwean Case Study APReeler 41 Wilderness Therapy with Militarised Youths in Traumatised Communities Gavin Robertson and Steven De Kiewit 53 The Elim Care Group: Conflict in Community Development Styles Mokgadi Tlakula 59 Conflict Management and Peace Building through Community Development Thulam Ndelu 67 "A More Excellent Way:" Developing Coalitions and Consensus through Informal Networking Alison Gilchrisl 75 Book Reviews Globalization and Social Policy in Africa: Issues and Research Directions, Tade Akin Aina. The Tanzanian Peasantry: Further Studies, Peter G Forster & Sam Maghimbi (eds). Woman Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Healing through Grief Work - Beyond Survival, Judy Chew. Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal, Leonardo A Villalon. Traditional Medicine in Africa, Isaac Sindiga, Chacha Nyaigoli-Chacha & Mary Kunanah (eds). 85 List of Books Received 95 Abstracting Services & Index 96 Journal of Southern African Studies/St. Antony's Conference on African Environments, Past and Present 5-8 July 1999, Oxford. Convenors: William Beinart, St. Antony's College, Oxford and Richard Grove, Australian National University. The Journal of Southern African Studies is organising a conference on African environments, past and present. The geographic focus is not restricted to southern Africa, and we would welcome contributions on other parts of the continent, as well as papers which explore comparative contexts and wider international linkages. A rich body of research which examines the interaction between social and environmental change is accumulating. The conference is designed to stimulate dialogue between different approaches and disciplines, following some productive recent encounters. Historians and social scientists of Africa are increasingly focussing their attention on environmental change and regulation; one purpose of the conference will be to draw together some of this work. But we hope also to engage with natural scientists both in discussions of the history of their disciplines, which have been so important in building an understanding of environmental change in Africa, and in an effort to keep pace with rapid scientific developments and their impact on policy. Natural scientists in tum might find value in approaches which seek to be sensitive to African practice and the political implications of environmental controls. With reference to specific issues and areas there is often a good deal of common ground. It is important to explore this, not only in order to understand environmental change, but because access to and conservation of natural resources remain critical questions for African people and governments. This is an open conference for which we invite papers and proposals for panels by the end of February 1998. Topics covered could include: * African ideas and local knowledge * The history of natural sciences * Climate and desertification • Hunting and wildlife conservation *,The impact of introduced species * Parks and people * The impact of property regimes * Water and its control * Timber, forestry and fuelwood * Fire * Disease and environmental change * Migration and conservation * Urban environments and pollution * Vegetation change and rangeland management * Biodiversity, degradation and susiainability * Markets, commoditisation and environmental change * Colonisation and conflict over natural resources * Literature, film and conceptions of landscape * History of Commonwealth forestry (convened by Prof. J. Burley, Oxford Forestry Institute). Proposals for papers should be about 300 words; panels should consist of two or three papers and a discussant. We plan to precirculate papers so that the bulk of time can be devoted to discussion. We cannot undertake to accept all proposals. Participants should plan to raise their own fares, but let us know if this will be impossible. All correspondence and proposals to JoAnn McGregor, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 0X2 6JF, fax 01865-554465, emailjoann.mcgregor@sant.ox.ac.uk.