As the COP26 and COP27 Presidencies meet in Denmark for a joint ministerial meeting, the opportunity to advance debates on issues that matter for Africa should be seized.
Almost a decade since the conflict in South Sudan commenced, the conflict has become further fragmented, with indiscriminate violence across the country being highly varied.
The priority theme for CSW66, ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes’, gave us an opportunity to reflect on an area of key contemporary importance.
The article acknowledges that low state capacity increases the likelihood of violence in the context of climate change, and thus informal institutions should play a crucial role in preventing and mitigating violence in the absence of formal institutions.
International emergencies, create a major opportunity to recast cooperation and elevate it, truly, to a ‘mutually-beneficial’ partnership between Europe and Africa. One area where cooperation will be tested is in the area of climate change.
The AU has shown global leadership on how to integrate the climate-peace nexus. The March 2021 PSC meeting at heads of state level decided to also develop a common African position on the nexus between climate, peace and security.
Climate change can undermine peace and increase levels of violence by affecting the drivers of conflict.
Youth will bear the brunt of the impact of climate change, hence sharing their perspectives, lived experience and proposed solutions should be taken into account when it comes to climate change, peace and security considerations.
Arguing that continuing conflict between farmers and herdsmen can be explained by the non-application of restorative justice procedures by government.
On 9 March 2020, the Commission of the Status of Women adopted a political declaration on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. Key