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She emphasized the importance of addressing the internal and external root causes of conflicts in Africa beyond the traditional response, which only tackled their symptoms, adding that only...
Poverty. Internal armed conflict is much more prevalent in poor countries than in rich ones. This is not because poor people are violent but because poor states lack the ability to ensure law and...
focus on the symptoms and not the root causes of conflict. This chapter examines various definitions of African conflict, analyzes trends and causative factors, and provides a set of recommendations that should enhance our understanding of conflict drivers and inform more effective approaches. Conceptualizing Violent Conflict in Africa
2021 Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa. This report is prepared by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) in response...
The root causes of ethnic conflict in Africa are poorly understood. Most of the available sources address ethnic conflict in Africa from the point of view of either ethnic diversity or climate change and competition for natural resources to the exclusion of mass grievances to the state.
We examine statebased conflicts, non-state conflicts, and one-sided violence, relying on the UCDP’s conflict definition as conflicts with at least 25 battle-related deaths per year.
The scourge of armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa persisted in 2021 and early 2022. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Peace Index 2022, five of the ten least-peaceful countries globally were in the region: the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan ...
During 2021, political instability increased in many parts of Africa while socioeconomic conditions deteriorated following the COVID-19 outbreak and other global crises.
Agenda information A/74/251 64b Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa. AFRICA--DEVELOPMENT. 19 p. Submitted in compliance with General...
Multiple statebased conflicts in Africa are related to the rise and expansion of the Islamic State (IS). In 2019, nine countries in Africa (Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Libya, Burkina...