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This paper addresses the debate on natural resources and conflict from the point that conceptualisations of the linkages between conflicts and natural resources have generally concentrated on the human aspects of the relationship. By so doing, the nature of natural resources and the influence their ...
This report investigates the situation
surrounding these displaced pastoralists. It examines the causes of their displacement, the legal basis for their protection and the shortcomings in responding to the problem. To address these, the report gives
recommendations for the government of Kenya,
trad...
The year 2011 heralded the convergence of
various initiatives seeking to curtail the
financing of conflict in the Great Lakes
region through the illegal exploitation of
minerals. The combined effect of seeking to
comply with the various processes has had
significant implications at the national,
reg...
This situation report provides explanations for the state of affairs in South Sudan and the implications of the emerging dynamics
for the future of the new state. The report advances certain key policy recommendations and options that the various stakeholders, particularly the GoSS, could pursue to ...
In this paper, we argue that West Africa’s conflict experiences since 1990 have never been devoid of the concurrent influence of the youth bulge problematic and the effects of the economic downturns of countries in the sub-region. These factors can therefore not be relegated to the background in p...
As Sudan enters the final and most critical year of its post-war transition period, the other countries that form the Horn and central Africa are on the alert. Southern
Sudan’s self-determination referendum, scheduled for January 2011, could very well result in the partition of the country and the...
The Somalia arms embargo was imposed in January 1992 by Security Council Resolution 733(1992) primarily to restrict the delivery of all weapons and military equipment into Somali territory as a way of impacting on the worsening security situation in the country. Sixteen years after its imposition, h...
Africa’s recognition of the threat of terrorism to the continent has culminated in the galvanisation of national, regional and international efforts towards counter-terrorism on the continent. The renewed efforts have culminated in the (1) designing of legal instruments to facilitate action agains...
