This concluding module aims to help participants reflect critically on the application of "lessons learned”; first, for themselves as individual participants; and second, "community of practitioners” who desire better ways of scaling-up the capacity of their respective institutions to contribute to managing peace and security challenges in Africa. Read more...
- Teacher: Martha Mutisi
- Teacher: Charles Ukeje
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In this module participants will be able to understand conceptual and theoretical approaches to security and peace studies; examine the various patterns of violent conflicts in Africa; develop a critical understanding of how and why violent conflicts break out in Africa; evaluate and apply various theories of peace and security studies; understand the transformational impact — for better or worse — of violent conflict on women, children and society in Africa; map out the occurrence of conflict and their actors; Identify conflict management and resolution institutions at national, regional and continental levels; Understand and demonstrate how those institutions function; Formulate broad, exploratory and inquisitive perspectives that challenge mainstream and easy assumptions, interpretations and representations and Begin understanding the complex dimensions (historical, political, economic, and social) of the crisis in the DRC.
In this module, we deal with the complexity of Peace Support Operations (PSOs) as a means of intervention in conflicts. Since the first intervention of the United Nations in Africa in the Congo in 1961, the number of operations on the continent has increased manifold and Africa houses some of the largest and oldest PSOs in the world.