AHSI Seminar: Unconstitutional Regime Changes: The Resurgence of Coups in Africa

Date: 2009-09-09 to Invalid date

AHSI Seminar: Unconstitutional Regime Changes: The Resurgence of Coups in Africa
Addis Ababa, 9 September 2009

 

Hosted by the African Human Security Initiative Secretariat, ISS Addis Ababa and the Hanns Seidel Foundation

 

Africa has recently experienced a return to more severe and potentially explosive unconstitutional regime changes. Whilst this problem has its roots in both the failure to manage the democratic transitions since decolonization and the quality of governance the region has experienced, constitutional manipulations, electoral fraud and the military coups are all phenomena that merit scrutiny in order to prevent power alternation models that escalate into full scale violent conflicts.

 

This Human Security Dialogue Forum will debate on these issues and will draw on cases from Madagascar, Mauritania, Guinea as well as from other countries where constitutions have been tempered with to allow current incumbents to stay on in power. Emphasis will be on the governance models that led to this scenario in these countries. The intention will be to come up with recommendations for regional bodies to prevent such machinations by would be rogue regimes. Guest presenters will be drawn from experts who follow trends in the regions where such problems have been rampant.

 

Date: Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Time: 09h00 - 13h00
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

RSVP: Dr Annie Barbara Chikwanha, Tel: +251 113 72154/5/6; Email: [email protected]

 

Please Note: Attendance of this event is free (limited seating), but travel and accommodation costs are for your own account

Seminar Documentation