New Approaches Urgently Needed to Crisis in South Sudan
To date sanctions already imposed on a handful of South Sudanese officials by the USA, Canada, EU and UN have had little effect on the conflict.
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Tag: Africa
UN Peacekeeping with no Peace: Disorientation, Demoralization and Scarcity in Mali
The current model for international peacekeeping in Mali is unsustainable and unlikely to solve the many problems facing the country.
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African Organised Crime: Not Just a Problem of Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
How homegrown organized crime groups in Africa are diversifying, maturing and increasing in sophistication.
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Canada in Africa: Integrating security sector reform into its peace and stabilization strategy
CSG Senior Fellow David Law discusses new initiatives and ongoing efforts by the Canadian government as part of its overall strategy of re-engagement with peace operations.
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Canada, Peace Operations & SSR
A new blog series which explores the security sector reform (SSR) dimension of Canada’s planned re-engagement with peacekeeping and peace operations in Africa. This four-part series focuses on the main options being speculated upon for troop deployment: Mali, the Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Security Sector Reform & Hybrid Security Governance In Africa
Prevailing approaches to security sector reform (SSR) have tended to stress Westphalian notions of the state characterized by legal-rational norms and institutions. Thus, SSR processes concentrated on the formal arrangements of the state and its security and justice institutions. Yet, such approaches are fundamentally at variance with the underlying realities of the African context, where many political and social transactions take place in the context of informal norms and systems.
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The War on Terror in Africa: New Means for New Security Threats
Blog Contributor Yonmon Tchinsala discusses the threat posed by militant Islamic insurgency in Africa and the often inadequate response of African security forces.
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