This book, Silencing the Guns: Reviewing the Agenda and Reassessing Prospects, which forms part of a two-volume series, examines the African Union Silencing the Guns (STG) role in eradicating armed violence in Africa, wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and mass atrocities by 2030. The first volume delves into the history, theory, and practice of the STG. It accomplishes this by reflecting on how rising insecurity is fueled by poverty, armed conflict, resource-induced conflict, mass atrocities, political and economic marginalization, terrorism, insurgency, piracy, border insecurity, environmental degradation, illicit arms trafficking, election violence, and democratic erosion in Africa influenced its development and implementation in specific cases across Africa. The second volume reflects on the experiences from these case studies and ponder on the possible factors that have accounted for these emerging and contending challenges, with a view to forecast the prospects of STG in Africa in line with the Agenda 2063.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Silencing the Guns in West Africa:
Military Interventions and Emerging Challenges.
Chapter 3: Democratic
Consolidation, Deconsolidation and the African Union Silencing the Guns
Agenda.
Chapter 4: Agenda 2063 and The Sahel: Through the Prism of the
Transboundary Internal-External Security Nexus.
Chapter 5: The Malian
Conflicts, Human Insecurity and the Silencing the Guns Agenda in Africa.-
Chapter 6: Revitalizing Multilateral Cooperation for Lasting Conflict
Resolution: Harnessing International Treaties to Achieve 'Silencing the Gun'
in Africa.
Chapter 7: Silencing the Guns: Navigating the Complex Web of
Armed Conflict, Humanitarian Crisis and the Elusive Quest for Sustainable
Peace in Sudan.
Chapter 8: Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferation: Gun
Control Policies Versus Gun Crimes in West Africa.
Chapter 9: Border
Security, Arms Proliferation, and Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 10:
Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Ambiguity of
Non-Interference in the Silencing the Guns Campaign: Some Observations from
SADCs Response to Islamic Insurgency in Mozambique.
Chapter 11: Silencing
the Gun: Examining Policy Measures to Prevent Gender-Based Violence in
Nigeria.
Chapter 12: Situating the African Women in the Silencing the Guns
Agenda: A reflection on the agency of Mozambican Women in Peace building.-
Chapter 13: Climate Change Transaqua Project in the Lake Chad and the
Silencing the Guns Agenda.
Chapter 14: Child Soldiers and the Silencing the
Guns in Africa.
Chapter 15: ECOWAS and the Silencing the Guns.
Chapter 16:
Arms Mopping and Silencing the Guns in Africa.
Chapter 17: Ethnonationalism
and Conflict Intractability in Africa: The case of the
Banyarwanda/Banyamulenge (Bany2) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC) and Paths to Silencing the Guns.
Chapter 18: Resource Induced Conflict
in Africa and the Silencing the Guns Agenda.
Chapter 19: Conclusion.
Nicholas Idris ERAMEH, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow and Head Division of International Politics at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). Erameh was recently appointed as an extraordinary researcher at the Afrocentric Governance of Public Affairs (AGOPA), Research Entity, North West University, South Africa.
Joshua Olusegun BOLARINWA, PhD is the Director of Research, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, Nigeria. His research interests cover security, strategic studies, peace and conflict, conflict prevention, early warning, development studies and multilateralism. He is a member of the African Union Strategy Group of the Network4Peace in Africa, a consultant to the ECOWAS and GIABA.
Ikenna Mike ALUMONA is a Professor of Comparative Politics and Security Studies at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State, Nigeria. He is presently Adjunct Research Professor and Head, Department of Research and Analysis, Centre for Intelligence and Security Analysis, Department of State Services (DSS), Abuja. His research interests includes; Security and Intelligence studies, Peace and Conflict, and Party/Pressure Group Politics.
