Strengthening Christian Values Among the Great Lakes Region’s Leaders for An Effective Political Transformation

Abstract

The Great Lakes Region has gone through repeated wars and conflicts between its countries. This has caused the loss of lives and it has brought a political crisis that needs to be addressed.  However, even though there is such a political crisis, its leaders claim to be Christians. So, the question that we should ask ourselves: why the war in region that possesses Christian leaders?  This paper demonstrates that there is a lack of inward change among its leaders that should allow them to practice a right politics in the region. Therefore, the Great Lakes region needs political leaders that are spiritually transformed and able to practice Christian values in their daily decisions and political duties. The article calls for strengthening Christian values among the leaders of the Great Lakes region. To fulfill this, the study traces the historical and current political crisis of the Great Lakes region, some trends that have been tried to resolve the situation, and it ends up with the analysis of Christian values as the foundation for a political change in the Great Lakes region. Generally, the articles encourage the leaders of the region the application of Christian values to overcome the political crisis that the region has faced for a long time. Therefore, the leaders of the Great Lakes region should accept to be transformed and turn to a new page.