Regional Peace and Security Architecture: Challenges of Compatibility between Africa Union Peace and Security Council & Regional Economic Communities

Biru, Selam Melese (2016) Regional Peace and Security Architecture: Challenges of Compatibility between Africa Union Peace and Security Council & Regional Economic Communities. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

One of the fundamental changes that have come about with the transformation of the Organization of African Unity into the African Union is the establishment of a comprehensive peace and security regime. The African Peace and Security Architecture is institutionalized within the framework of the AU Constitutive Act and the Protocol on the Peace and Security Council. APSA is a key mechanism for implementing the AU’s vision of promoting peace, security and stability in the continent. The African Union regards Africa’s sub regional organizations as an integral part of its peace and security framework and building blocks of the African Peace and Security Architecture. Therefore the coordination and harmonization of the African Union Peace and Security Council with sub regional organizations is significant. To strengthen this relation a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the area of peace and security was signed between them. The study seeks to describe and analyze the relationship of the African Peace and Security Council with sub regional organizations. To this end the paper first discuss the global peace and Security Architecture and then the Regional peace and security structure. The structure and the institutional design of AU PSC will be dealt by further analyzing the provisions of the Constitutive Act, the MOU and the Protocol on the Relation between the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities. The paper examines the structures of selected RECs and studies their involvement in the area of peace and security and the coordination with the AU PSC. Finally the paper analyses the prospects and the challenges on the working relationship between the AU PSC and the RECs. The paper concludes with recommendation for better developing the institutional relationship between AU PSC and RECs in order to facilitate more lasting and sustainable peace and security in Africa

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JX International law
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Emmanuel Ndorimana
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2018 09:05
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2018 09:05
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4563

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