Rebuilding Trust in a World of Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting negatively on the structure of governance around the world. As it shatters the lives and economies of many nations …
Archives: Analyses
What does collective leadership have to do with COVID-19 and peace?
Collective system leadership has enabled some countries to successfully manage the onslaught and debilitating consequences of COVID-19. This approach …
Reviving conflict prevention
From the start of its engagement in internal conflicts in the early 90's, the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) focused on conflict prevention. This…
COVID-19 in Africa: One Year later
On the 8th of May 2021 the African Union (AU) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) convened a high level emergency m…
An African Peace Engineering Corps can help the continent respond to COVID-19 and other such emergencies
When in 2013, the devastating Ebola Virus Disease broke out in Guinea, it did not only spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia; it also threatened the worl…
COVID-19, Resilience and South-South Cooperation
The COVID-19 crisis has wreaked havoc across the world and changed our understanding of the relationship between health and governance in many ways. W…
Tanzania’s COVID-19 Strategy: Local and Regional Implications
Tanzania’s COVID-19 strategy has been a mixed-bag of admission, denialism, pragmatism and tiptoeing. At the centre of this approach has been the co…
Lessons learned from the G5 Sahel Force for Mozambique, SADC and the AU
The Group of Five for the Sahel, commonly known as the G5 SAHEL was created in 2014 by the governments of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Nig…
The Cabo Delgado conundrum amidst the COVID-19 crisis: fostering resilience through inclusive development, peacebuilding, and prevention of violent extremism
On 22 March 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was announced in Mozambique, followed by the government’s declaration of its first state of emergency o…
An overview of the conflict in Cabo Delgado: narratives, causes and strategies on the way forward
On 5 October 2017, unknown armed men attacked the town of Mocimboa da Praia, in the far North of the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. The attack p…