Publications

Conflict & Resilience Monitor

The Conflict and Resilience Monitor offers monthly blog-size commentary and analysis on the latest conflict-related trends in Africa.

28 Mar 2024

A Reflection on the impact of women’s invisibility in Southern Africa’s governance structures

Women’s participation in 2024’s electoral politics in Africa

The resurgence of unconstitutional changes of government in Africa: democratic renewal in the year of elections

29 Feb 2024

Major challenges lie ahead for the African Union as the shape of global politics shifts

Beyond the 37th Summit of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government: Critical Considerations to move the governance, peace and security agenda forward

Implications of Niger’s withdrawal from the multinational joint task force

20 Dec 2023

Intergenerational justice and human rights in a time of planetary crises in Africa

Climate change induced conflict in coastal communities of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region and internal security operations: perspectives for the future

The unintended consequences of UN financial support for AU peace support operations

4 Dec 2023

The African Union security sector reform policy framework: A decade of implementation: successes, challenges, and perspectives for the future

Revitalising the African standby force: lessons from Africa’s Peace operations experience

What is possible for peace and conflict sensitivity at COP28?

16 Nov 2023

Rethinking peace and security: many thoughts, little innovation

The African Union – United Nations strategic partnership in an era of networked multilateralism

Climate, peace, security and migration in Mozambique

26 Oct 2023

African capacity in the area of peace and security and cooperation with the Nordic countries

African-Nordic peace and security cooperation

UNGA 78 high-level week: ups, downs, and the outlook ahead

28 Sep 2023

The BRICS XV declaration: what it says and what it does not

What are the implications of an expanded BRICS for the future of global governance?

Elections-related instability in Eswatini and Zimbabwe high on SADC agenda

31 Aug 2023

The New Agenda for Peace and UN support for African peace operations

An expanded BRICS could reset world politics but picking new members isn’t straightforward

Beyond Sanctions and the use of force: How ECOWAS can negotiate a political solution to Niger’s coup

28 Jul 2023

Africa’s Peace mission to Ukraine & Russia: Towards a strategy of active non-alignment?

Africa’s Quest for Reform of the United Nations Security Council

How Mauritius became Africa’s vanguard in sustaining peace

29 Jun 2023

Xenophobia – a threat to the unity of African peoples

The Importance of National Action Plans in Advancing Africa’s Youth, Peace and Security Agenda

Towards more Context-specific, Participatory, and Adaptive Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace

31 May 2023

Anchoring ECCAS Peace Architecture on Human Security: Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of APSA @20

Towards a Renewed AU-UN Partnership: Financing of African Union Led Peace Support Operations

How Not to Do UN Peacekeeping

30 Mar 2023

Striving for peace in Africa’s Great Lakes region: Ongoing efforts to resolve the current crisis

The Role, Progress and Challenges of the EAC Regional Force in the Eastern DRC

Receptivity and Reintegration of Ex-Boko Haram Associates in the Lake Chad Basin Region

ACCORD recognizes its longstanding partnerships with the European Union, and the Governments of Canada, Finland, Ireland, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, UK, and USA.

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