The last two decades have seen African countries adopt a new security approach through
the activities of regional economic communities (RECs) and the African Union's (AU) African …

Situations of serious or massive violations of human rights are no longer purely of domestic
concern, and sovereignty can no longer be an absolute shield for repressive governments in …

This article examines whether the African Union's policy of non-indifference has made a
difference on the continent to issues concerning peace and security and the promotion and …

Like many other African military forces, the Gabonese national army was a direct offshoot of
a colonial army—the French one, in this case. Like many of their former brothers in arms on …

An exploration of the roles that pro-and anti-government militias, private armed groups,
vigilantes, and gangs play in local communities in the new democracies of Southeast Asia …

This chapter discusses the traditional security governance and the security sector reform
(SSR) process in relatively new democracies in Southeast Asia, with a focus on the …

ABSTRACT The Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) is a regional security body for the
Great Lakes Region. The force is mandated with the tasks of conflict intervention in the …

The collapse of Somali Government in the early 1990s left the state in the hands of predatory
war lords who wrecked the country into havoc. The country has remained in a state of violent …

African and external approaches to security governance and reform have come to stress the
importance of local, national and regional ownership, embodied at the national level by the …

Prevailing approaches to peacebuilding and SSR (and the associated policy literature) have
tended to stress Westphalian notions of the state characterized by legal-rational norms and …