Editors: Jacinta Mwende Maweu, John Mwangi Githigaro and Joyce Omwoha
Publisher: Routledge
Africa today faces various peace, security and development-related challenges such as the impact of climate change, natural resources conflicts, inter and intra-state conflicts, transboundary conflicts, terrorism and violent extremism, poor governance, food insecurity, and economic and health crises among many others. There is an intricate interdependent relationship between peace, security and development. Peace is a critical component of the security-development nexus. Peace, security and development challenges occur simultaneously and develop in an interlocking manner and it is therefore essential to tackle them together.
Several peace and security challenges remain an obstacle to Africa’s growth and development and the attainment of the Continental Blue Print, the Agenda 2063. Across Africa and within the sub-region, there exists a myriad of peace and security challenges that are linked in part to local governance challenges but also to externalities and glocalized factors. There is therefore need to interrogate how to address the twin issues of security and peacebuilding to ensure
sustainable development in these regions and the continent as a whole. Addressing the myriad of security threats prevalent in Africa requires a robust understanding of the context, and the appropriation of local/indigenous solutions to peace building.
How then should African scholars and enthusiasts make sense of the ever-evolving peace and security landscape on the continent? The contours range from the (contested) notions such as weak and failed states and the resurgence of internal civil wars to falling human development index indicators. The call for this edited volume therefore is founded on appraising the peace and security landscape in Africa to reinvigorate emerging epistemic, empirical and scholarly insights on how these complexities interact with global forces to implicate Africa’s agency going forward. The book will explore from multiple inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives, the interconnections between security, peace building, and development in Kenya and the East African region in ways that can inform policy and practice.
- We seek chapters that address any of the following among many other related issues in the
security, peacebuilding and development nexus in Africa and how they interact with regional
and global nuances/forces.
Chapter Themes
Peace and Security structures
Climate Change, Natural resources Conflicts, and Security in Africa
Interstate relations, Geopolitics, and Histories of Conflict
Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Media, Digital Technologies, and Peacebuilding
Indigenous knowledge and Local Peacebuilding Cultures
Radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism
Philosophies of Peace and development
Peace, Security, Governance and Development
Democracy, Peacebuilding, and Development
Archaeology, Peace and Justice
Memory, History and Peacebuilding
Religion, peacebuilding and governance/politics
Reforms within the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA)
Reforms at the United Nations Security Council and African Voices
Referencing Style
Use the Harvard style referencing of (author, date method) and manuscripts should be between 5000-8000 words maximum including bibliography. Also provide a 100-word abstract for your chapter.
Deadline for draft chapters is April 20th , 2024.