The idea of studying peace has gained considerable traction in the past few years after
languishing in the shadows of conflict for decades but how should it be studied? The Peace …

In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most
devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country …

Security sector reform1 is a relatively recent concept in state transformation, development
and post-conflict peace-building. Notions of democratising societies, good governance with …

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of
the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital …

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths
of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of …

Statebuilding as a panacea for post-conflict societies is a largely uncriticised notion, like the
liberal democracy it articulates. But, according to some, the policy framework of large-scale …

This article develops a theory of peace as freedom that explains some important
relationships between peace and development. It does this by critically examining and then …

The refugee phenomenon is a major force in international politics. This is more so in sub-
Saharan Africa where refugees are major actors in the affairs of their home and host …

In 1996, two years after the Rwandan genocide and when yet another catastrophe of war
refugees was in the making in the Great Lakes' region of central Africa, experts at UN …

Sudan has suffered war for most of its existence as an independent state and many hoped
the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 9 January 2005 would not only end the long …