APCJ_1528_Win2010_00i_122_4 12/30/10 3:22 PM Page iii AFRICA PEACE AND CONFLICT JOURNAL Volume 3 Number 2 December 2010 CONTENTS Guest Editor’s Note From the Managing Editor v viii Articles Integrating Principles and Practices of Customary Law, Conflict Transformation, and Restorative Justice in Somaliland 1 Barry Hart and Muhyadin Saed Beyond the Ethno-Religious Theory of the Jos Conflict 18 Simeon H. O. Alozieuwa Oil, Politics, and Conflict in the Niger Delta: A Nonkilling Analysis 32 Fidelis Allen and Ufo Okeke-Uzodike Gaps in the Eastern Congo Peacebuilding Process: The Role of Peace Education and Local Tensions 43 Pyana Mwamba Symphorien Rediscovering Indigenous Peacebuilding Techniques: The Way to Lasting Peace? 60 Karolina Werner Violence as a Bargaining Tool: The Role of Youths in the 2007 Kenyan Elections 74 Edwin Barasa Mang’eni Darfur, Grand Conflict: Inter-Communal Rift and Grass-root Initiatives for Reconciliation Khalid Ali El Amin 90