The Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Abosede Babatunde, an APN alumnus (Individual Research Grant 2016) and lecturer at the Center for…
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Essays
Silencing the Guns by 2020: How Realistic is this Timeline?
by David Omozuafoh
This essay previously appeared in the first issue of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) newsletter, “Governance Link” (November-December 2017). The APRM was established in 2003 by the African Union in the framework of the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Member countries use the APRM to self–monitor all aspects of their governance and […]
Democracy, Development and Governance
Moving the Battlefields: Foreign Jurisdictions and Environmental Justice in Nigeria
by Ebunoluwa O. Popoola
This is a cross-post from Items, a Social Science Research Council digital forum that renews and reimagines the Council’s former newsletter as a space for engagement with our work and with the social sciences more generally. Ebunoluwa O. Popoola was a Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa fellow in 2012. After six decades of oil production […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
Special Issue: “African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuilding? Trends and Prospects”
by Dagan Rossini
Africa is currently experiencing unprecedented population growth, characterized in part by a booming youth demographic. “Youth”—defined by the African Union’s African Youth Charter as individuals between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five—today constitute roughly three-fifths of Africa’s total population. The United Nations estimates that by 2050 there will be 2.5 billion people in Africa; in […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
New Threats to Africa’s Peace and Security: the Role of Youth in Preventing Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace
by Golda Keng
Today, more than 600 million young people globally live in fragile and conflict-affected areas, a large proportion of them in Africa. 1 Considering that a rising youth population in Africa—the fastest growing in the world —intersects with a number of threats to peace and security on the continent, it is no wonder that this growth, […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
Interfaith Dialogue on Violent Extremism: Putting Youth in the Driver’s Seat!
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
Obstacles to, and Prospects for Youth Mobilization and Emancipation in Africa
by Daniel Lumonya
As the group with least control over the means of production, and who, on account of their age have the largest stake in Africa’s future, it is unsurprising that Africa’s youth remain in the vanguard of opposition politics. Take for example Kenya’s political opposition, which draws support largely from the youth, or Cameroon, where youth have […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
A Call for Constructive Engagement: Youth, Violence, and Peacebuilding in the Mano River Basin Area
by Ibrahim Bangura
For the last six decades, political elites have disadvantaged, marginalized, and infantilized young people in the Mano River Basin, a region comprising Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. In the 1980s many youths in this region found themselves unemployed and in search of a means of survival, identity, and a place in their society. […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
Transforming Youth Anti-Crime Networks into Job Opportunities in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo