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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"African Union"”.
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The African Union and the right to peace and security
… as the condition for elaborating the humanity of Africans and the promise of the place of Africa in economic reconstruction in the next centruy. Apart from being a recognised right in the African human rights system, it is also present amongst the objectives and principles of the AU political …
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The crossroads of justice : Sudan, the African Union and the International Criminal Court
… by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the African Union (AU) passed a declaration of non-cooperation with the ICC. While all of the other cases in which the ICC had been involved also were located on the African continent, the AU's declaration was the first time any collective of African …
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(De)legitimizing rape as a weapon of war: patriarchy, narratives and the African Union
The African continent has over the past 40 years witnessed a continued scourge of violent conflict and human rights abuses. These conflicts have significantly undermined the social, political, and economic prosperity of African citizens. Additionally, women and children are particularly affected by …
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Legal Dimension of the Role of African Union and United Nations in Conflict Resolution in Africa
… legal position input of priority to resolve the African conflict problems in future. This thesis employed both qualitative and quantitative research designs. Data were obtained through questionnaires, interviews and document review respectively. The findings reveal that, the legal dimensions of …
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Intellectual property, innovation and trade: strategies for the actualisation of agenda 2063 of the African Union
… to the Gross Domestic Product of many African economies. Despite its importance, the sector faces persistent challenges including climate change, limited technological capacity, and low adoption of advanced agricultural technologies—factors that hinder productivity and necessitate …
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The ICC-African union relationship: in the interest of justice, or a continuation of politics by other means?
… examines the evolving relationship between the African Union (AU) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), with a specific focus on issues of head of state immunity, sovereignty, and the principle of complementarity. The study centers on ICC interventions in African countries with weak …
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African Union Peacekeeping and Civilian Protection. An Evaluation of the EU Strategy for Africa and the G8/Africa Joint Plan.
… But increasing emphasis is being placed on the African Union to assume greater responsibility for peacekeeping on the continent. The AU is still comparatively new and is in the process of developing its peace and security architecture. Over the past decade, the international community has been …
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The African Union as a human security actor: a study of the AU mission to Somalia (Amisom) from 2007-2017
This thesis assesses the effectiveness of the African Union as a pro-human security actor in conflict. It employs a case study approach using the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) from 2007-2017 to examine the extent to which the AU has helped, hindered or harmed human security through its …
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The capacity to mediate: the role of the African Union in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan.
… disputes between states. At the level of the African Union these incapacities have become visibilised in the limited role as mediator in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam dispute between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan. In this regard, the research investigates how the organisation's institutional …
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Peacemaking in Africa : - a critical analysis of the relationship between the African Union and African sub-regional organizations in recent peacemaking initiatives
This thesis considers the question of how, in practice, a regional organization comes to take the leading role in managing a peacemaking intervention. More specifically, it considers which criteria, if any, are used in the choice of a lead actor in peacemaking efforts, and how the principles of …
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African solutions to African problems: An assessment of the African Union (AU)'s policy implementation for peace and security in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2004
… the challenges of sustaining security and peace. African leaders, who set out with the ideals of the iconic Nkrumah's ‘Pan-Africanism' of the 1950s, as committed to in the launching of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963, sought permanent solutions to problems rooted in this decolonial …
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An analysis of the counterterrorism (CT) and counterinsurgency (COIN) operations employed by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to counter the threat of al-Shabaab in Somalia (2007- 2016)
… than ten years after the deployment of the first African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops to Mogadishu, it is imperative that an in-depth analysis is conducted to examine whether the troops have reduced the threat of al-Shabaab in Somalia and the region. This analysis is especially …
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The Strategic Importance of Africa to Arab National Security From the Perspective of Libyan Foreign Policy
… a link between Libyan foreign policy towards African and Arab national security. This perception has resulted in creating an in-depth strategy incorporating Africa. The study focuses on the most crucial aspects that Libya has embraced—on both the Arab and African front—to achieve its goals on …
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Framing Power: Discursive Contestations and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas
… and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas. ABSTRACT This dissertation investigates the dynamics of the power relationship between the African Union and non-African external actors. For many authors, this relationship is understood in terms of a …
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Beyond the rhetoric: a theoretical analysis of the effects of neopatrimonialism and intergovernmentalism on the integration process in Africa
The Organization of African Unity marked its 50th anniversary in 2013 and, despite the shift to the African Union and continued rhetoric from African leaders about the need for further integration, the progress towards the goal of economic and political integration has been ineffective. This thesis …
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A historical analysis of South Africa’s post-1994 multilateral drive in selected international multilateral organisations
… include the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa bloc (BRICS). In connection with these relations that the country has made thus far, there have been little studies that account and …
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From OAU To AFCTA - Analysing The Prospects For Economic Development In Africa
On the 21st March 2018, leaders from across the African continent met at an extraordinary summit of the African Union (AU) in Kigali, Rwanda to sign a deal for the formation of an African continental free trade area (AfCFTA). This step is perhaps the biggest leap towards the age-long dream of …
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Balancing state sovereignty and the protection of human rights: a case study on the impact of the requirements of state consent and the exercise of political will on the functioning of the human rights systems of the African Union and the Southern African Development Community
… functioning of organizations such as the African Union (‘AU') and the Southern African Development Community (‘SADC'). This thesis proposes that the less significant the impact of voluntariness is on a regional or sub-regional human rights system, the more effective it will be in its role …
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The responsibility to protect (R2P): an analysis of the fulfillment of the obligation borne by the Nigerian Government and the international community to protect the Nigerian population from Boko Haram
… of organizations such as the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have given authority to the international community to intervene in their member states in order to protect populations from mass atrocity crimes. On that basis, the …
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