With over two decades of EU-AU trade and development cooperation, there is a need for a renewed commitment to overcome…
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Anticipating the new awful: Covid-19 and South Africa’s fragile peace
The coronavirus and lockdown measures have had a crippling effect on the South African economy and her people. The pandemic…
Development and Statebuilding at the Cost of Peacebuilding? The Case of the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Building state institutions, providing services, and promoting economic development in conflict-affected regions are usually considered integral to peacebuilding. This essay…
Silence and Denial as Impediments to Peace in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe, 1980-2016
Introduction This appraisal is an interlocution of the twin cultures of silence and denial inherent in Zimbabwe’s post-colonial peacebuilding praxis.…
Fees Must Fall: Lessons from Student Struggles in South Africa
South Africa is currently undergoing a resurgence in student protests, with students agitating for free, decolonized education. The most prominent…
The South Sudan Peace Deal and Prospects for Peacebuilding
"Post-conflict peacebuilding and reconstruction present a complex challenge to any nascent state emerging from war. In South Sudan, negotiated tradeoffs…
A Reflection on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa
"There is the belief that if you build competitive institutions and a structure of government, these elements of statebuilding will…
Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Contexts of Identity-Related Conflicts: A Necessary Collaboration
"It is important to ask how peacebuilding can take place when the state is perceived as biased, partisan, unfair, and…
Kenya’s Long-Term Security Should Be a “Discursive Project”
"Terrorism is a constructed ideology. For it to be defeated in Kenya and elsewhere, we need to construct a counter-ideology…
A Beleaguered Political Marriage: The Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union and the Constitution Process in Tanzania
"The proposed three-tiered government structure will ease the historical tensions between Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, and strengthen this iconic political…