Coopérer pour la paix en Afrique centrale
Coopérer pour la paix en Afrique centrale

Author: Mutoy Mubiala

Publisher: United Nations Publications UNIDIR

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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The efforts undertaken by the international and African communities towards the decentralization of the management of peace and security issues since the beginning of the 1990s have meant for Central Africa a significant diplomatic and legal body of work. Several official documents express the political will of member states of the Economic community of Central African States (ECCAS) to work together and in partnership with the international community in general, and the United Nations in particular, towards a lasting peace and security in their sub-region. The sheer volume and quality of the documents produced to codify the norms and mechanisms created until now within ECCAS is impressive and represents a dynamic expression of hope for the sub-region. However, the very best legal texts and diplomatic intentions are but words, so that peace for the Central African peoples can only become reality through the concrete implementation and rigorous follow-up of the totality of measures collated in this book. After an introduction that sets the regional political and diplomatic context, the book provides a reference collection of the various regional and international documents pertaining to the management of peace and security in the Central African sub-region.

Mobilisation Des Nations Unies Pour la Paix Et la Sécurité en Afrique Centrale
Mobilisation Des Nations Unies Pour la Paix Et la Sécurité en Afrique Centrale

Author: United Nations. Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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This publication is a basic reference document which presents a comprehensive overview of the role of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa since the 1960s. It also addresses the activities in the promotion of arms restraint & confidence-building & reviews in general other United Nations peace efforts.

The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework
The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework

Author: Abdulqawi A. Yusuf

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2012-01-20

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9004227725

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This work is an introduction to the origins, law and institutions of the African Union (AU). It examines the evolution, structures, legal standards and operational activities of this Pan-African organization, which replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU) 10 years ago. Although the AU came into being in 2001, so far there is no comprehensive work which addresses the institution, its organs and structures, the scope of its operations, its legal framework and the normative standards underpinning its objectives and functions or those underlying the conventions, charters and protocols it has enacted or inherited from its predecessor, the OAU. It is the aim of this work to fill that void. It has been conceived as a manual, and not as a scholarly treatise, so as to serve as a basic introduction to the institutional and legal framework of the AU and its affiliated organizations. It is meant to offer a concise and clear picture of the nature and workings of a continental institution aimed not only at promoting peace and unity in Africa but also at ensuring human security, development, human rights protection and good governance for the peoples of Africa.

Peace, Security and Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Peace, Security and Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Author: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 2869787529

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The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia, have experienced political violence and bloodshed at one time or another. While a few states have been advancing electoral democracy, environmental protection and peaceful state building, the overall intensity of violence in the region has led to civil wars, invasion, genocide, dictatorships, political instability, and underdevelopment. Efforts to establish sustainable peace, meaningful socio-economic development and participatory democracy have not been quite successful. Using various methodologies and paradigms, this book interrogates the complexity of the causes of these conflicts; and examines their impact and implications for socio-economic development of the region. The non-consensual actions related to these conflicts and imperatives of power struggles supported by the agents of savage capitalism have paralysed efforts toward progress. The book therefore recommends new policy frameworks within regionalist lenses and neo-realist politics to bring about sustainable peace in the region.

Buttress’s World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations
Buttress’s World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations

Author: Jean C. Swinbank

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 1054

ISBN-13: 940112132X

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This edition of over 60 000 entries, including significantly more than 20% new or revised material, not only updates its predecessor but also continues the policy of extending coverage to areas dealt with only sparsely in previous editions. Special attention has been paid to the Far East, Australasia and Latin America in general, and to the People's Republic of China in particular. The cross-referencing between a defunct organization and its successor (indicated by ex and now) introduced into the last edition, has been extended. Otherwise the policies adopted in previous editions have been retained. All kinds of organizations are included - international, national, governmental, individual, large or small - but strictly local organizations have been omitted. The subject scope includes activities of all kinds, in the fields of commerce and industry, education, law, politics, public administration, religion, recreation, medicine, science and technology. The country of origin of a national organization is given in brackets, unless it is the home country of the title language or can be deduced readily from the title itself. Acronyms of parent bodies of subsidiary organizations are also added in brackets. Equivalences are used to link acronyms in different languages for the same organization. A select bibliography guides the reader to specialist works providing more detailed information.

Political Economy of Regionalisation in Central Africa
Political Economy of Regionalisation in Central Africa

Author: Chrysantus Ayangafac

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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An interesting phenomenon in the global political economy is that regional mechanisms have come to be considered the best policy response to globalisation and weak state capacity. As such, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been heralded as the building blocks of the African Peace and Security Architecture. However, while other regions of the continent have made laudable progress towards economic and political integration, Central Africa is facing a human security crisis and regional integration seems an unattainable chimera rather than a reality. Ironically, the region is well endowed with natural resources.

Pan-Africanism and International Law
Pan-Africanism and International Law

Author: Abdulqawi A. Yusuf

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9004285059

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Pan-Africanism offers a unique vantage point to study Africa’s encounters with international law : first, as a continent whose political entities were excluded from the scope of application of the Eurocentric version of international law that was applied among the self-styled club of “civilized nations” ; second, through the emergence of African States as subjects of international law willing to contribute to the reform and further development of the law as a universal interstate normative system; and third, as members of the OAU and the AU acting collectively to generate innovative principles and rules, which, though applicable only in the context of intra-African relations, either go beyond those existing at the universal level or complement them by broadening their scope. This study examines those encounters through the various stages in the evolution of Pan-Africanism from a diaspora-based movement, engaged in the struggle for the emancipation of the peoples of the continent, to groupings of independent States and intergovernmental organizations which continue to promote African unity and influence the development of international law to make it more reflective of diverse legal traditions and values.

Conflictualités Contemporaines
Conflictualités Contemporaines

Author: Pascal Touoyem

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9956553611

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Comment penser la puissance africaine et les enjeux de la transition hgmonique globale au 21e sicle ? Telle est la question thmatique centrale de cet ouvrage qui se veut un cahier de recherche doctrinale en polmologie et en irnologie endognes, dans un contexte o la mondialisation des enjeux scuritaires signifie pour lAfrique, un reclassement gostratgique du continent o le maintien de la paix et la rsolution des conflits sont devenus un terrain daffirmation de puissance. Analytique et oprationnelle, cette publication est le fruit de nombreuses expriences de terrain, de missions denseignements, de travaux ditoriaux, de publications scientifiques et de confrences internationales.

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Publisher: TheBookEdition

Published:

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 2959354338

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