Resource bartering doesn’t deliver stability – it perpetuates institutional fragility and rarely builds public trust and legitimacy in African governments.
This seminar explores how foundational AU norms and principles are being interpreted in responses to conflicts.
What will it take for peacekeeping to be effective and protect civilians in a rapidly changing conflict environment?
With the window for holding meaningful elections fast closing, can the three initiatives underway deliver more than previous efforts?
The 1973 treaty empowers communities as the owners of the process and traditional elders as the guarantors of peace.
East Africa’s instability reflects a complex interplay of governance deficits, socio-economic exclusion, environmental pressures and security threats.
What options remain when an array of sanctions and mediation efforts have failed to disrupt Sudan’s war machinery?
Military recruitment increasingly reflects the same demand-supply dynamics that shape global civilian migration.
The same leaders who routinely invoke ‘African solutions’ seek external conflict mediation and treat African-led initiatives as optional or secondary.
Post-election ‘ghost town’ protests disrupted trade, revealing neighbouring countries’ economic reliance on stability in Cameroon.
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