The 25th African Union Summit is being held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 7 to 15 June 2015, with the Heads of State meeting over 14 and 15 June. The Summit Theme is: “Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”.
Summit Agenda: The AU Heads of State and Government will consider reports on: the Ebola Crisis; the First Ten-Year implementation plan of the Agenda 2063; Alternative Sources of Financing the AU; the state of peace and security in Africa; Maternal, New Born and Child Health; climate change; UN reforms; African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM); AIDS; and will also appoint members of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
ACCORD Expertise
The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) has over 20 years of experience in key areas the Summit will consider, and in addition has a wide network of experts who can talk to the various topics on the Summit agenda.
ACCORD Publications
In addition to ACCORD’S extensive work across Africa on capacity building and policy development, ACCORD has recently published the following titles:
- Conflict Trends 2015/1 – the Arab Spring
- Alternative Dispute Resolution and Peace Studies in Africa – Lessons, prospects and challenges by Priyal Singh
- Nigeria’s 2015 general elections by Charles Nyuykonge & Shola Omotola
- Perpetuation of instability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by John Ahere & Joyce Muraya
- On the Future Africa Wants: The Common African Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda by Dr Siphamandla Zondi
- Policy & Practice Brief 27: Reconciliation without regret – National healing and reconciliation in South Sudan by Dr Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge, Emile Yanaki Taban & Nhial Gogok
- Accounting for violence in Eastern Congo: Young people’s narratives of war and peace in North and South Kivu
