The Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN) had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Rawia Tawfik, a 2017 Individual Research Grant recipient. This interview was conducted on June 21, 2017,…
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APDD Dispatches
Pursuing an Integrative Approach to Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Conversation with Ruth Lekakeny
by Thomas Asher
Ruth Nekura Lekakeny, a 2017-18 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Completion fellow, is a feminist human rights lawyer from Kenya. She spoke with SSRC Program Director, Thomas Asher, about her current research and her take on the role of scholarship in social change movements.
Essays
Challenges to the African Union’s Security Engagement in North Africa and the Sahel
by Mohammed Ahmed Gain
The persistence of insecurity and instability in parts of North Africa and the Sahel belt has benefited the numerous armed non-state actors in the region including separatist groups, terrorists, and transnational criminal networks engaged in the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people. The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), the African Union’s (AU) set of […]
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!