Reclaiming protection of civilians under international humanitarian law
Executive Summary Over the past sixty years, international humanitarian law (IHL) has established a comprehensive legal framework for the protection of civilians (PoC) in armed conflicts. There is broad consensus that these guidelines afford non-combatants significant protections from the effects of military operations – provided they are carefully implemented by all sides to a conflict. […]
The African Union migration and regional integration framework
Executive Summary This Policy & Practice Brief (PPB) evaluates how well-equipped the African Union’s (AU) migration policy framework is to address various domestic challenges that individual African states face in managing international migration. It reviews these issues, then analyses the key policy instruments underlying the AU’s continental migration framework. The focus of this PPB is […]
Picking up the pieces
Executive Summary Liberia is at a critical juncture in terms of its ability to maintain its hard-won peace and ensure that its reconciliation and sustainable development efforts are not derailed. The West African country, with a population of 3.124 million,1 celebrated ten years of peace in 2013, following brutal civil war (1989–97 and 1999–2003) that […]
Then and Now
Lesley Connolly examines the successes and failures of the UNPBA in bringing peace to African countries emerging from conflict
Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections
Concerns over the disparities within Nigerian society loom in the face of the country’s upcoming general elections
On the Future Africa Wants
An examination of whether African countries are able to shape their own development in spite of uneven international power relations
Getting Coherence and Coordination Right
Connolly and Baggerman elucidate some taken-for-granted definitions of important peacebuilding terminology, and how such misunderstandings affect peacebuilding efforts.
The Road to Reconciliation
Singh and Connolly examine Liberia’s Strategic Roadmap for National Healing, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation and try to account for its shortcomings.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram
Hussein Solomon investigates the oversimplified, deeply historical origins of Nigeria’s radical terrorist cell
Creating an Enabling Peacebuilding Environment
Executive Summary Peacebuilding theory and practice has evolved over 20 years in response to highly complex and fluid factors and contexts. Over this period, peacebuilding has developed several salient features, including its reliance on implementation in the long term, the interdependence of various actors and the multidimensional nature of processes. Current post-conflict situations indicate that […]