African Peace and Security Agency: Challenges and Prospects regarding Agency

This blog-series is a summary of the webinar ‘African Agency in Peace and security: Peace Operations and Maritime Security’ organized by the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC), the GIZ support to the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) in 2021.

The seminar provided a platform for practitioners and scholars to discuss the progress, limits and opportunities for African agency in matters of peace and security. As this blog series is a summary of the most important discussions, it particularly focuses on three main areas that require improvement by APSA institutions. This includes the need to address the coordination gaps among African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) institutions; the gaps and opportunities in terms of involving local actors in peace initiatives as well as the need to invest in pressing issues relating to maritime security.

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Enhancing Coordination within the African Peace and Security Architecture

26. Januar 2022
Gitterstruktur in Silber und Gold
Over the last two decades, African states have demonstrated increasing agency in addressing conflicts by using their capacities at the national, sub-regional and continental levels. This newfound quest for inward solutions was ushered in by the formation of the African Union ...

Investment in the Blue Economy for enhanced Maritime Security

20. Januar 2022
erence view Nairobi 2018
The conventional understanding of maritime security is one that is viewed as battle-ready and state-centric. However, a more sustainable approach would be investment in the maritime sector under the Blue Economy (BE) lens. This would bring the general public into the fold of ...

Non-State Actors in Peace and Security in Africa: Inclusion on Paper but not in Practice

18. Dezember 2021
In a speech at the fifth United Nations-African Union Annual Conference on 1 December 2021 in New York, Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres called for continued unity and a high standard of regional co-operation on the African continent. According to ...