The youth agenda is not a box-ticking strategy. It is a development, gender, human rights, peace and security issue that will require the implementation of intentional national strategies and structures in order to be effective.
Are approaches to peacebuilding that understand conflict resolution as an emergent process that is context specific, participatory and adaptive, more effective at preventing and resolving conflict than approaches that are based on pre-determined ideological assumptions and standards?
On Friday 16th June, Mali’s Foreign Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, told the UN Security Council, that its 13,000-strong stabilisation mission (MINUSMA) should leave without delay. MINUSMA has tried to stabilise Mali for a decade, but Diop’s demand comes aft …
For a long period of time, indications have shown that Sudan was heading for another serious conflict. In the last three decades, prominent figures like the British-American historian Bernard Lewis have been advancing the idea of the restructuring of the Middle East.
The review of the twenty years of existence of the APSA of the AU and its contribution to peace in Central Africa is timely
It is time now – more than ever – for the UN Security Council to endorse one of the funding models outlined by Secretary-General Guterres for the predictable, sustainable, and flexible financing of AU-led operations and modalities for AU missions to access UN accessed contributions.
UN peacekeeping is now under new pressure because of a significant loss of trust between its three large stabilisation operations and their host countries
It is important to underscore that peace and stability continue to be elusive in the eastern DRC and the region as the conflict goes back decades
Borders and borderlands in Africa have become spaces where the nexus of security, development, crime, conflict and politics often interface and collide.
Despite the efforts and moderate digital progress that Africa has made throughout the decades, a need still exists to further their digital development.
Ongoing peace processes attest to a new dynamic; they signal a quest for finding regional solutions to peace and security challenges in the Great Lakes region
The East African region is to mobilise soldiers to work in cooperation with FARDC and administrative forces to support the political dialogue between rebels and the government, provide civilian protection, enforce peace agreements and contain, defeat and eradicate negative forces in the country
The recent mass exits from Boko Haram present an inevitable yet unique opportunity to take stock of earlier efforts to encourage defections from Boko Haram factions
Since the end of last year, Sudan’s political faction groups – the military leadership and civilian political parties – have been negotiating a peace accord aimed at reinstating a civilian administration
The PAG is a politically neutral regional initiative harnessing the experience and expertise of its members to support peace and development processes in Cabo Delgado
Over the last decade Africa has experienced a resurgence of what used to be called rebels. In response a number of new types of operations have evolved
Representation and participation of women in peace processes is not taken for granted, as women are increasingly becoming key players in peace processes
Climate change is an undeniable conflict threat multiplier that is already increasing food insecurity, water scarcity and resource competition while disrupting livelihoods