Africa's peace and security agenda

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This article aims to publicize the extent of importance that has been given by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), to Africa’s peace and security topics.

As a matter of fact, the AU has accorded greater attention to the continent’s peace and security issues.

It has adopted architecture for the continent’s peace and security١, and put in place different robust mechanisms, instruments and efficient institutions, to effectively deal with all types of threats to peace, security and stability throughout the continent with an aim to establishing them as a key pre-requisite for sustainable development.

However, the final aim of any peace and security architecture, whatever its level, is to effectively address the root causes of conflicts with an aim to٢ ensuring that sustainable peace and security have been achieved and there would be no relapse into violence by the conflicting parties, as key prerequisites for sustained economic progress and a reduction of poverty.

However, the focus of the article is to provide detailed information about these mechanisms and institutions as well as the functions and roles entrusted to them in order to implement the continent’s agenda of peace, stability and security.