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…
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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 […]
Conflict
Ending Impunity in the Central African Republic Still a Bridge Too Far
by Fonteh Akum and Simon Massock
At the end of July 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Central African Republic (CAR) had reached 600,000. The number of refugees, most of whom are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Cameroon, had reached 480,000. This recent […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
Special Issue: “African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuilding? Trends and Prospects”
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!
by Amr Abdalla
Since 2000, the issue of violent extremism has risen to the highest levels of national, regional, and global concern. While prevention is generally pursued through coercive hard power such as military-dominated peace support operations and surveillance, this has proven effective only to a certain extent. It has also come at a high cost, both financially […]
African Youth—Generation Next for Peacebuiding?
Obstacles to, and Prospects for Youth Mobilization and Emancipation in Africa
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
by Rosette Sifa Vuninga
The dangers associated with the youth unemployment crisis in Africa have often been linked to political violence and civil unrest, with some experts referring the current situation on the continent as a “ticking time bomb.” A World Bank survey in 2011 showed that roughly forty percent of those who joined rebel movements claim they were […]
Editorials
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