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Rethinking Peacebuilding in the Covid-19 Era

The Covid-19 pandemic further complicates peacebuilding across Africa, where vast challenges - infrastructure, water, roads and jobs - and high levels of inequality feed conflict. In an AllAfrica interview, Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu, Chancellor of the University of Pretoria and a founding trustee of The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (Accord), reflects on the Centre's experience South Africa, Burundi, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Democractic Republic of the Congo.

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Indonesian female peacekeepers from MONUSCO actively engage in Covid-19 awareness-raising campaigns on disease prevention in Kalemie, DR Congo

Africa: Peacebuilding Expertise Plays Role in COVID-19 Era

allAfrica, 30 June 2020

As South Africa prepared for its first democratic elections in 1994, political tensions and domestic conflict escalated. Two years earlier, Wiseman Nkuhlu, now Chancellor of the… Read more »
Africa: Africa Must Go Beyond Ending Conflict, and Tackle Its Root Causes

Africa Renewal, 25 June 2020

Hanna Tetteh is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union. As head of the UN Office to the African Union… Read more »
West Africa: Militant Groups Exploiting COVID-19 in Sahel, UN Peacekeeping Chief Tells Security Council

UN News, 5 June 2020

COVID-19 is complicating an already complex security situation in the Sahel, with terrorist groups exploiting the pandemic as they step up attacks on national and international… Read more »
Africa: Why COVID-19 Offers a Chance to Transform UN Peacekeeping

The Conversation Africa, 28 May 2020

Peacekeeping may be entering a period of major change. Over the past four years, there has been a steady decline in the number of peacekeepers deployed worldwide. And two of the… Read more »