ISS TODAY: Breaking Africa’s cycle of forced displacement By ISS Today issafrica
. This is due to a lack of resources and political will, among other things. Most efforts have instead focused on conflict management – suppressing or eliminating overt violence to reduce suffering after a conflict has erupted.14 UN peacekeeping missions are in Africa. Despite huge investment in these missions, their effectiveness is hard to measure.
The roadmap for “silencing the guns” recognises the importance of “addressing the plight of internally displaced people and refugees and eliminating the root causes of this phenomenon by fully implementing continental and universal frameworks”. The ongoing AU reform process may help address some of these problems, assuming the continental body becomes more effective and achieves its goals of institutional restructuring, self-financing, and reducing the number of summits. The self-financing scheme has already enabled the peace fund to raise $84-million in Africa, and 75% of this funding will be used for mediation and preventive diplomacy.
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