African Peacebuilding Policy Review and Analysis

The African Peacebuilding Policy Review and Analysis is a new publication series which provides in-depth analysis and evidence-based suggestions for addressing challenges facing conflict-affected countries and regions of Africa. Such concise, actionable policy options are meant to equip practitioners and policymakers working in national, regional, and multilateral organizations with ideas that are relevant to the consolidation of African peace, security, and developmental dynamics.

Kujenga Amani

Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas and information between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on peacebuilding in Africa. It is a digital forum for diverse conversations about critical challenges confronting peacebuilding in conflict-affected regions of the continent, as well as exploring the inextricable connections between African and global peace.

Kujenga Amani Podcast

The Kujenga Amani Podcast is the audio series of the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics  program’s digital forum., Kujenga Amani (Swahili for “building peace”). Recorded at various workshops, conferences, and meetings organized by APDD, this series aims to provide listeners with critical knowledge and commentary from scholars, practitioners, activists, and policymakers in the field of African peacebuilding, while amplifying African voices and perspectives on globally significant issues.

Lecture Series

Edited by Cyril Obi

The APDD Lecture Series provides an avenue for influential thinkers, practitioners, policy makers, and activists to reflect on and speak to the critical issues and challenges facing African peacebuilding. This publication series documents lectures given on the platform of the African Peacebuilding and Developmental Dynamics (APDD) program, and its institutional partners. These lectures provide an analysis of processes, institutions, and mechanisms for, as well as the politics of peacebuilding on the continent, and contribute towards broadening debates and knowledge about the trajectories of conflict and peace in conflict-affected African countries and regions. The Lecture Series seeks to address knowledge gaps in African peace and security, including its links to local, national, and global structures and processes. These publications also provide critical overviews and innovative reflections on the state of the field, including new thinking critical to knowledge production and dissemination in overlooked or emerging areas of African peacebuilding.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in lectures published as part of the APDD Lecture Series are those of the lecturers and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the African Peacebuilding Developmental Dynamics program or the Social Science Research Council, unless directly stated otherwise.

Working Papers

Edited by Cyril Obi

“African solutions to African problems” is a favorite mantra of the African Union, but since the 2002 establishment of the African Peace and Security Architecture, the continent has continued to face political, material, and knowledge-related challenges to building sustainable peace. Peacebuilding in Africa has sometimes been characterized by interventions by international actors who lack the local knowledge and lived experience needed to fully address complex conflict-related issues on the continent. And researchers living and working in Africa need additional resources and platforms to shape global debates on peacebuilding as well as influence regional and international policy and practitioner audiences. The APDD Working Papers series seeks to address these knowledge gaps and needs by publishing independent research that provides critical overviews and reflections on the state of the field, stimulates new thinking on overlooked or emerging areas of African peacebuilding, and engages scholarly and policy communities with a vested interest in building peace on the continent.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in working papers published as part of the APDD Working Paper Series are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the African Peacebuilding Developmental Dynamics program or the Social Science Research Council, unless directly stated otherwise.