This book, part of a two-volume set, explores a wide range of critical topics related to 'Silencing the Guns' (STG) agenda in Africa. Key themes include: From Conception to Practice: Examining the Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of 'Silencing the Guns'; Seven Years On: Can Africa Achieve the Silencing the Guns Agenda ; Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight: Three Perspectives on Assessing Progress in Silencing the Guns in Africa; Private Military Companies and Their Role in Silencing the Guns; Oil Governance and Its Impact on the African Union's Silencing the Guns Agenda; Extremism and Transnational Terrorist Organizations in the Context of Silencing the Guns; The 'New Scramble for Africa' and Its Implications for the Silencing the Guns Initiative on Africa's Peace and Security, Climate Governance and the Silencing the Guns Agenda in Africa.
This comprehensive exploration provides a nuanced understanding of the multifaceted challenges and opportunities for peace and security in Africa, examining the intersection of armed conflict, mass atrocities, small and light weapons proliferation, and conflict prevention.
This book appeals broadly to academia and to fields such as peace and conflict studies, international relations, international law, and African studies.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: From Conception to Practice:
Engaging the Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of 'Silencing the
Guns'.
Chapter 3: Seven Years Down the Deadline: Would Africa Be Able to
Actualize the Silencing the Guns Agenda?.
Chapter 4: Hindsight, Insight and
Foresight Capabilities: Three Lenses for Understanding the Progress of
Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 5: Private Military Companies and
Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 6: Oil Governance and the Africa Union
Silencing the Guns Agenda.
Chapter 7: Extremism, Terrorism and Transborder
Terror Organizations and the STG.
Chapter 8: Silencing the Guns in Africa:
Womens Peace Building Roles.
Chapter 9: The New Scramble for Africa and
the Silencing the Guns Initiative: Implications on Africas Peace And
Security.-Chapter 10: Silencing the Guns Beyond 2030: The Challenge of
Globalization.
Chapter 11: Climate Governance and the Silencing the Guns
Agenda in Africa.
Chapter 12: Increased Womens Representation in Peace
Processes Towards Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 13: Food (In)
Security and Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 14: ECOWAS Protocol of
Democracy, Governance and the Silencing the Guns.
Chapter 15: European Union
and Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 16: International Organisations
and the Actualization of the Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 17: Why
Organisms Feed: Silencing the Guns through Strategic "Starvation" of
Structures, Systems and Cycles of Violence.
Chapter 18: Silencing the Guns
in Africa: Womens Peace Building Roles.
Chapter 19: Multilateral Treaty,
Conflict Resolution and the Silencing the Guns.
Chapter 20: Conclusion.
Dr. Erameh Nicholas Idris is a Senior Research Fellow and currently Head, Division of International Politics at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). Erameh was recently appointed as an extraordinary researcher at the Afrocentric Governance of Public Affairs (AGOPA), Research Entity, North West University, South Africa.
Dr. Ntsikelelo Benjamin Breakfast is Acting Head of Department of History and Political Studies Nelson Mandela University. He has published locally and internationally in accredited journals. He is also the Acting Director of Center for Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Prof. Efem Nkam Ubi is the Director of Studies at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in Lagos, Nigeria. He is also a Reader (adjunct) at Elizade University, Ondo State, and also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of African Studies (IASZNU), Jihnhua, China. He has published several articles in well-referenced journals.
