When values inform approaches to climate security: The case of Zambia’s Southern Province
This policy and practice brief discusses the significance of community values in addressing climate related security risks.
Initiatives and Efforts to Institutionalise the Youth Peace and Security Agenda
This brief analyses the current youth, peace and security agenda on the African continent by looking at the various efforts and initiatives taken at the institutional level to advance the agenda.
Strengthening Democratic Governance and Political Stability in Africa: Critical Policy Perspectives
The brief analyses how and why African democracies are backsliding into authoritarianism and proposes actions for strengthening democratic governance and political stability and preventing future crises and conflicts.
Secessionists Movements and their Implications for Security in Africa: The Case of Southern Cameroons
Secessionist movements have become a norm in some post-independence African states, leading to violent conflict and civil war. This PPB examines the factors influencing secessionist movements in Cameroon.
Community Security and Arms Control: Lessons from Darfur
Evaluating two community security and arms control (CSAC) projects piloted by UNAMID in Darfur, Sudan
Remembering the Ogaden War 45 Years Later: Four and a Half Lessons Towards a Peaceful Future
45 years ago, Africa was confronted with its first inter-state war when Somalia tried to annex the Ogaden from Ethiopia. This PPB offers insight into the conflict.
Analysing the Patterns and Dominant Narrative(s) of Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Conflicts
This Policy & Practice Brief forms part of ACCORD’s knowledge production work to inform peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding
COVID-19 and peacebuilding in Africa
This Policy and Practice Brief (PPB) draws extensively from the rich online conversations which attracted almost 200 youth peacebuilders from different parts of Africa, organised by the African Union (AU) Youth for Peace (Y4P) programme and UNESCO-International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (UNESCOIICBA) and, with additional assistance from the GIZ AU-APSA Programme.
The Case for updating the African Union Policy on Unconstitutional Changes of Government
The African Union (AU) policy on dealing with unconstitutional changes of government (UCG) has generated countless debates, with the recent wave of coups d’état in Africa, including in Chad, Mali and Guinea, prompting the conviction that for any organisation to move forward, it needs to pay special attention to its institutional memory and past experiences.
Women Mediation Networks
Twenty years since the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSC 1325) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), women remain underrepresented in peace processes. This underrepresentation has far-reaching consequences for the lives of many women and girls in post-conflict countries.