Panel 48: African Security Complexes
Panel organiser: Osarhieme Benson Osadolor (Univ. of Benin, Nigeria)
Contact: osbenosadolor@yahoo.com
| This panel is proposed to explore issues of security in Africa and the intervention from the West on approaches to managing African insecurity in its various dimensions. Security issues within the continent remain prominent on the agenda of the Great Powers of Europe and America, and this panel therefore, seeks an analysis of the theoretical perspectives of African security complexes, and attempts to redefine the newer issues of African security beyond war, peace and armed conflict. The panel will discuss the management of conflicts, the question of privatization of security in Africa and post-conflict reconstruction. A related issue is how the international community can play its role in African security and in other daunting challenges of poverty and democratic control without becoming the instrument of government control. |