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Add to Calendar 2023-07-10 10:00:00 2023-07-11 16:00:00 African Peace & Security Annual Conference (APSACO) 7th edition Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Post Conflict Reconstruction in Africa

 

APSACO

The Policy Center for the New South will organize the 7th edition of the African Peace and Security Annual Conference (APSACO) on July 10-11, 2023, under the theme “Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa”. This annual conference provides a platform that allows for the analysis of Africa’s peace and security structures and institutions by focusing on the continent’s assets, history, and its ability to overcome current and emerging challenges and gain global competitive advantage.

The debate on post-conflict reconstruction has been spurred in recent years by African efforts to provide the continent with a policy framework for the post-conflict or post-crisis period (political transition) in line with the African Union Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and in the wake of the African Governance Architecture (AGA). This concern for sustainable peace on the continent is behind the adoption in Banjul (Gambia) in 2006 of the "AU Policy Framework on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD)" and the establishment of the African Solidarity Initiative (ASI) in July 2012 to coordinate continental financial contributions to the program.

The PCRD review workshop, organized by the AU Peace and Security Commission (PSC) in Accra, Ghana, in September 2022, proposes a better tailored understanding that is more adapted to the new challenges. These realities are not only limited to the changing nature of crises, but also to the issues of financing, the new forms of partnerships, the roles of African actors in creating the best conditions for the deployment of PCRD, and finally, the appropriation ways of the responses provided by the PCRD by states in post-conflict situations. The new version was validated at the meeting held in Cairo, Egypt in March 2023.

The effects of PCRD 2023 will, however, depend largely on its implementation. The previous framework essentially lacked African and international political will. The new one needs outstanding leadership and capacity to mobilize national, regional, and multilateral stakeholders to advance comprehensive solutions to the security, political, and socioeconomic challenges of post-conflict reconstruction.

The seventh edition of the African Peace and Security Annual Conference (APSACO) – scheduled for July 10-11, 2023 - aims to deepen the comparative knowledge on the challenges and catalysts of the implementation of peacebuilding in Africa in general, and PCRD in particular, through the following axes:

- Collective security in Africa: Towards a new conceptual framework?

- What prevention for a sustaining peace?

- African solidarity in times of financial crisis

- For an effective global partnership to enhance the PCRD

APSACO gathers experts from different parts of the world, fields, and professions – from the military and political world to academia and civil society – to promote high level conversations on peace and security in Africa. This annual conference provides a platform that allows for the analysis of Africa’s peace and security structures and institutions by focusing on the continent’s assets, history, and its ability to overcome current and emerging challenges and gain global competitive advantage.

 

 

July 10th, 2023        Day 1

10h30 – 11h00    

 Welcoming Coffee                                     

11h00 – 11h10     

 Opening Remarks

11h10 – 12h25  

 Introductory Conversation

12h25 – 14h00    

 Lunch Break

14h00 – 15h15

 Panel 1:  The African Approach to Collective Security

How can the African concept of collective security be improved based on current post-conflict situations in the continent?    

15h15 – 15h45    

 Coffee Break

15h45 – 17h00    

 Panel 2:  Reconciliation and Political Reconstruction   

What is the reconciliation model to be adopted to support and sustain emerging democratic structures? 

17h00 – 17h30      

 Coffee Break 

17h30 – 18h45    

 Panel 3:  Preventive Security Governance

How to promote the reconstruction and stabilization of a legitimate and functional security framework, operating under civilian control and supervision? 

    

July 11th, 2023        Day 2

9h00 – 9h30   

 Welcoming Coffee 

9h30 – 10h45   

 Panel 4:  Women and Youth Inclusion in the Consolidation Process   

How to promote the position of women and youth in peacebuilding strategies from the first steps?

10h45 – 11h15    

 Coffee Break

11h15 – 12h30    

 Panel 5: Reconstruction and Development Facing Financial Constraints  

How to enhance traditional and alternative financing mechanisms for post-conflict reconstruction programs?

12h30 – 14h00  

 Lunch Break

14h00 – 15h15     

 Panel 6: An Effective International Institutional Partnership for Peacebuilding  

What are the tracks for better synergy between the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the African Union on post-conflict reconstruction issues? What are the prospects for the AU’s different international partnerships?   

15h15 – 15h45  

 Coffee Break 

15h45 – 17h00    

 Report Discussion: Annual Report on Africa’s Geopolitics   

17h00 – 17h15   

 Closing Remarks 

 

For more information, please contact: events@policycenter.ma.