The Africa Peace and Conflict Journal (APCJ) is a publication of the University for Peace Africa Programme. It provides a vehicle for African scholars and others to express views from multidisciplinary and distinctly African perspectives on issues of peace and conflict affecting Africa. The journal also serves as an outlet for African viewpoints on global concerns. In addition to making Africa’s voice heard on pivotal issues of peace and conflict, APCJ facilitates scholarly communities on the continent, encouraging engagement among them on questions of peace and security. It helps scholars, researchers, and practitioners tap into international knowledge networks, promoting debate, discussion, and dissemination of research findings. By publishing original research, examining current literature, and revisiting influential writings in the field of peace and conflict studies, APCJ strives to make critical contributions to the development and strengthening of institutions of good governance, equity, and democracy; the inculcation of cultures of peace; and the institutionalisation of peace and conflict studies in Africa. The University for Peace Africa Programme works to strengthen Africa’s capacity for education, training, and research on issues of peace and security. Toward this end, it focuses on a variety of areas, including the following: • conflict prevention, management, and resolution • peace, conflict, and development • human rights, justice, and peace • nonviolent transformation of conflict • regional integration and peace • • • • • gender and peacebuilding media and peace endogenous knowledge systems refugees and internally displaced persons leadership and governance ‘Bi Nka Bi’—Bite Not One Another African symbols known as adinkra, named after a legendary king and widespread in Ghana, are used on fabrics, walls, ceramics, and logos. ‘Bi Nka Bi’, the adinkra symbol for harmony, means ‘bite not one another’. Based on two fish biting each other’s tail, it is representative of peace, visually cautioning against backbiting, provocation, and strife, and instead urging a community spirit of sharing, group cooperation, justice, equity, fair play, and forgiveness.