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Title:African Union promotion of human security in Africa
Author:Tieku, Thomas KwasiISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:African Security Review
Volume:16
Issue:2
Pages:26-37
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:human security
African Union
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2007.9627414
Abstract:This paper explores the contribution of the African Union (AU) to human security promotion in Africa. It contends that human security concerns informed the formation of the AU. Through the efforts of the AU Commission, the African ruling elite and policymakers have become aware of human security doctrines. Human security ideas have been integrated into AU binding agreements, declarations, decisions and policies. The commission is now in the difficult, yet most important, phase of trying to persuade significant numbers of the African ruling elite and civil society to accept human security as a guiding principle and the desirable norm. Through the African Citizens' Directorate (CIDO), the commission is using indigenous African civil society groups to institutionalize human security doctrines in Africa. The commission faces serious challenges in its efforts to make human security the only security norm. While member States of the AU that have never been comfortable with the introduction of human security doctrines into the continental integration project are tacitly undermining the CIDO's ability to work with civil society groups to institutionalize the doctrines in Africa, the leaders who enthusiastically supported the integration of human security doctrines into the documents and work of the AU have seemed in recent times to be less resolute in their support of AU Commission's human security work. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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