Conflict Trends

2020/Special Edition

If there was ever a moment in the history of humanity that calls for the deepening of dialogue across different nations, generations, and cultures about a world that we want to see, the year 2020 is that moment. Instead of allowing the disruptions created by the emergence and spread of COVID-19 to weaken our collective resolve to find creative solutions to the challenges we commonly face, we ought to be inspired by the creativity, the innovations, and the resilience that ordinary people across the world have attempted to create.

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Editorial

By Vasu Gounden

Silencing the Guns requires a multi-pronged approach

By Ramtane Lamamra

We will not Silence the Guns without Women

The African Union, regional economic communities and regional mechanisms and United Nations: Leveraging the Triangular Partnership to Silence the Guns in Africa

By Alhaji Sarjoh Bah

What kind of leadership does the vision of “Silencing the Guns” require?

By Youssef Mahmoud

How a Strong African Union–United Nations Partnership can Sustain the Silencing the Guns Agenda Beyond 2020

By Priyal Singh Daniel Forti

The African Peer Review Mechanism and Silencing the Guns in Africa

Conflict Trends Interview with Ambassador Hamuli Baudouin Kabarhuzato

By Kwezi Mngqibisa

Speech by the South African Minister of Defence and Military Veterans on the Occasion of the Global Peace “Plant Trees Not Bombs” Campaign Launch

By Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula

Statement from the United Nations Under-Secretary-General at the Launch of the “Plant Trees Not Bombs” Campaign

By Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond

We stand at a very uncertain future for humanity

Global Health: A Pressing Foreign Policy Issue of our Time

By Ayanda Ntsaluba

The impact of COVID-19 on peace operations in Africa

By Cedric de Coning