Abstract
ABSTRACTArchbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu is renowned for promoting peace, harmony and reconciliation in ways that are now associated closely with the African moral philosophy of ubuntu. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace for his nonviolent role in the fight against apartheid. His conception of ubuntu has come to be widely referenced in debates and judgements related to the transformative democratic constitution of the new South Africa. Tutu articulates ubuntu, in tandem with his Christian beliefs, as a means for achieving reconciliation and harmony where critics call for radical transformative violence. Scholars have recognised how Tutu’s unique African Christian perspective shapes his version of ubuntu. This article adds to this literature by focusing on how Tutu’s Christian conception of ubuntu informs his judgement, practice and thinking regarding just war. Given that black people have been historically denied serious recognition, the recognition of Tutu’s unique contributions to ubuntu that this article pledges has important epistemological cum ontological and political significances.
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