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    Governance and security challenges in post-apartheid Southern Africa: policy brief

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2013
    Democracy and “good governance” are critical for effective peacebuilding and fostering economic development in Southern Africa.
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    Towards a new pax Africana: making, keeping, and building peace in post-Cold War Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    This CCR seminar report assesses the progress being made by the African Union (AU) and Africa's regional economic communities (RECs) in managing conflicts and operationalising the continent's peace and security architecture. The report also seeks to assist these bodies in building peace in countries emerging from conflict.
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    Post-apartheid South Africa’s foreign policy after two decades

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    This report is based on a policy research seminar which convened about 50 leading practitioners, scholars, and civil society activists from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America to explore and enhance the potential leadership role that South Africa can play in promoting peace and security, as well as regional integration and development in Africa.
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    Region-building and regional integration in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    The success of Africa’s region-building and regional integration efforts is linked to the potential leadership role of strategic countries in their respective sub-regions such as South Africa in Southern Africa; Nigeria in West Africa; Kenya in Eastern Africa; the conflict-afflicted Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Central Africa; and Algeria in North Africa.
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    Peacebuilding, power, and politics in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012
    Highlighting the diverse expressions and contexts of peacebuilding helps to understand the intended and unintended consequences and limitations of peacebuilding programs in Africa.
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    Africa's peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African descent

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2014
    This volume seeks to draw lessons for peacemaking, civil rights, socio-economic justice, environmental protection, nuclear disarmament and women’s rights, based on the rich experiences of the thirteen Nobel peace laureates of African descent who won the prize between 1950 and 2011.
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    Democratization in Kenya: Public dissatisfied with the benefit-less transition

    Afrobarometer, 2015
    Africa’s transition to multiparty democracy has often been accompanied by a re-institutionalization of autocratic regimes and authoritarianism.
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    The 2011 elections in northern Nigeria post-electoral violence: origins and response

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2014
    What can be done to reduce the likelihood and scale of violence around elections in Nigeria? In 2011, most of the violence occurred after the election, as the results of the presidential poll began to become clear and almost all of it occurred in ten northern states. An estimated 938 people were killed and 735 were injured in three days of rioting and targeted ethnic-religious killing.
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    A roadmap for RIC

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    The Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping is the only body that brings together the three largest Asian countries at a time when there is a churning in the existing security architecture in the region. But, RIC seems to have lost steam amidst the alphabet soup of multilaterals in which the three countries are engaged, despite some efforts lately to rejuvenate the forum.
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    South African economic diplomacy: Engaging the private sector and parastatals

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    An effective economic-diplomacy policy requires cooperation between the government and the private sector, as has been acknowledged by the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in its White Paper on foreign policy. However, state-business relations in South Africa are characterised by high levels of mistrust and ad hoc engagements.

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