Overview
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 APN 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 APN Working Paper Series are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the African Peacebuilding Network or the Social Science Research Council, unless directly stated otherwise.
No. 1
The Financing of International Peace Operations in Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Analyses
By Corinna Jentzsch
No. 2
Just Peace: Achieving Peace, Justice, and Development in Post-conflict Africa
By Dan Kuwali
No. 3
Toward a Community of Practice: ECOWAS and Peace and Security Policy Communities in West Africa
By Olawale Ismail
No. 4
The “Chief” and the New Baraza: Harnessing Social Media for Community Policing in Kenya
By Duncan Omanga
No. 5
Beyond the Rebellion Alternative Narratives of Violent Conflicts and the Implications for Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
By Tarila Marclint Ebiede
No. 6
Blaise Compaoré in the Resolution of the Ivorian Conflict: From Belligerent to Mediator-in-Chief
By Amy Niang
No. 7
The African Capacity for Immediate Response to Conflict and the African Standby Force: Options for Peace Intervention in Africa
By Jude Cocodia
No. 8
Decolonizing the Mainstreaming of Gender in Peacebuilding: Toward an Agenda for Africa
By Heidi Hudson
No. 9
African Boundary Conflicts and International Mediation: The Absence of Inclusivity in Mediating the Bakassi Peninsula Conflict
By Aloysius Nyuymengka Ngalim
No. 10
“Leave No One to Tell the Tales”: The Role of Pain and Recollection in Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Africa
By Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
No. 11
Fleeing Boko Haram: The Trauma of Captivity and Challenge of Freedom
By Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome
No. 12
Women and the African Peace and Security Architecture
By Hussaina J. Abdullah
No. 13
Teaching Peacebuilding in African Universities: Bridging the Gap between the Field and the Classroom
By Isaac Olawale Albert
No. 14
Ethnic Minorities and Land Conflicts in Southwestern Nigeria
By Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
No. 15
A Survey of Mediation in African Coups
By Laurie Nathan
No. 16
“Everyone Is Doing It”: The Changing Dynamics of Youth Gang Activity in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
By Rosette Sifa Vuninga
No. 17
Revisiting the “Primacy of Politics” in Contemporary Peacebuilding Enterprise in Africa
By Rhuks Ako
No. 18
The Challenges of Reintegration in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: The Case of Nigeria’s Niger Delta
By Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi
No. 19
Memory, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding in Post-Civil War Nigeria
By Godwin Onuoha
No. 20
Securing Our Lives: Women at the Forefront of the Peace and Security Discourse in Kenya
By Vicky Karimi
No. 21
An Overview of Recent Trends in African Scholarly Writing on Peacebuilding
By Festus K. Aubyn
No. 22
Leadership Targeting as a Counterterrorism Strategy: The Nigerian Experience
By Gbemisola Animasawun
No. 23
Wole Soyinka: Writing and Speaking Peace
By Okey Ndibe
No. 24
“The Ambivalence of the Sacred”: Religion, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 2000–2015
By Jacinta Chimaka Nwaka
No. 25
Gang Relationships in a Black Township in South Africa
By Diana Gibson and Godfrey Maringira
No. 26
Conflict and Cooperation in the Eastern Nile: The Role of Business
By Rawia Tawfik
No. 27
ECOWAS Mediation in Togo’s 2017/2018 Political Crisis: Feats, Deadlocks, and Lessons
By Brown Odigie
No. 28
Youth Patronage: Violence, Intimidation, and Political Mobilization in Zimbabwe
By Godfrey Maringira and Simbarashe Gukurume
No. 29
Emergence and Persistence of the “Enfants Microbes” Phenomenon in Côte d’Ivoire
By Gnangadjomon Kone and Moussa Fofana
No. 30
Contemporary Investigations on Academic Freedom and Conflict in Africa: A Metaphorical Linguistic Analysis
By Abdul Karim Bangura
No. 31
A Double-Edged Sword: Examining the Role of the State in National Dialogues as Mechanisms of Nation-building in Uganda and Rwanda
By Abdul Karim Bangura
No. 32
No. 33
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Use of its Documentation: An Analysis
By Proscovia Svärd
No. 34
Rethinking Military Responses to Terrorism and Insurgency in Nigeria
By Maurice Ogbonnaya
No. 35
An Overview of the African Peacebuilding Network’s (APN’s) Contribution to African Peacebuilding Literature
By Godwin Onuoha