Prospects for Africa's 26 fragile countries

Date: 2013-10-31

Time: 10:00 to 12:30

Venue: Conference room , ISS Pretoria

RSVP: Ms Sarah Malefo
Phone: +27 12 346 9500
Email: [email protected]

What are the prospects for state fragility in Africa? This event launches a paper based on a forthcoming in-depth Institute for Security Studies monograph that assesses long-term structural dynamics in Africa by forecasting the future of Africa’s 26 ‘more fragile’ countries. In conducting the forecast using the International Futures (IFs) model, co-authors Jakkie Cilliers and Timothy D Sisk argue that fragility should be understood as a syndrome, or set of related conditions, that operates in a system that is mutually reinforcing.

Chair: Dr Julia Schünemann, senior researcher, ISS

Presenter: Dr Jakkie Cilliers, executive director, ISS

Respondent: Dr Paul-Simon Handy, head of the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, ISS

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Presentation by Dr Jakkie Cilliers