Chinyere Augusta  Nwajiuba, Leonard Chidi  Ilechukwu, Ekwutosi Monica  Nnadi, Jacob  Usulor, 
    Religious Education and Sustainability of Peace in Africa: A
Socioreligious Discourse,
    Research Journal of Applied Sciences,
    Volume 14,Issue 5,
    2019,
    Pages 144-155,
    ISSN 1815-932x,
    rjasci.2019.144.155,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2019.144.155)
    Abstract: The study has analytically and descriptively investigated into how religious education could lead to
sustainability of peace in Africa. Using data from works of literature and secondary sources, a religious-centric
approach was used in analyzing the happenings and clues of issues that disrupt the context of peace in Africa.
From the study and the different works of literature used, it was established that Africa is seriously bed evilled
by numerous conflicts and religious education through its numerous contributive efforts would serve
as leverage for the sustainability of peace in Africa. Religious education encourages and promotes social
cohesion, peace, social solidarity, citizenry and national welfare; spirit of creativity, development and
distribution of wealth, social virtues, entrepreneurship, regulates poverty and controls the principles of
economic life. Some of the recommendations as outlined by the study include that religious education
should extremely be valued as a means and prerequisite for moral upbringing, peaceful coexistence
and societal upliftment in the socio-political hemisphere of Africa and frequent symposium of educators and
educationists, policy-makers, peace-practitioners and scholars, to deliberate on practical issues on sustainable
peace.
    Keywords: Religion;education;conflict;peace;sustainability;Africa