PURSUING HUMAN SECURITY IN AFRICA THROUGH DEVELOPMENTAL PEACE MISSIONS: AMBITIOUS CONSTRUCT OR FEASIBLE IDEAL?

Soldiers for Peace in Southern Africa: Myth or Reality

There has been considerable academic debate about the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) peace and security architecture. Nevertheless, this article aspires to augment current literature on improving peace and security in Southern Africa, as well as to provide new insights into the study of conflict management and peace-building. Primarily, this essay identifies the raison d'être b...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis in Southern Africa: feasible or not?

INTRODUCTION Southern and Eastern Africa bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, and current prevention interventions remain inadequate. Antiretroviral-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is gaining momentum as an effective prevention intervention. DISCUSSION Discussions have been started on how this strategy could be employed in Africa such that the populations most in need can be reached urg...

The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power: Pursuing Peace through Discourse Intervention

Western-liberal discourses of power and the social practices associated with them are proving inadequate to the task of creating a peaceful, just, and sustainable social order. Having recognized this, progressive scholars and social reformers have begun articulating alternative discourses of power, along with alternative models of social practice. Together, these efforts can be interpreted as a...

Regionalising Human Security in Africa

Stable Peace through Security Communities? Steps towards Theory-building

What makes security relations stable and, therefore, conducive to permanent peace? When and why is the peace in a region so stable that the outbreak of a major war is unlikely or perhaps even inconceivable? There are essentially two ways to answer these questions; either a given system must possess necessary structural prerequisites of stability, or the social and cognitive conditions of stabil...