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SADC – the southern arrested development community?: enduring challenges to peace and security in Southern Africa
University of Cape Town, Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa (IDCPPA), Cape Town, South Africa.
2019 (English)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Southern Africa is likely to experience more social unrest in the foreseeable future. That is one of the conclusions in this policy dialogue, which provides an overview of political and economic developments relevant to regional peace and security in Southern Africa.

While the region continues to experience isolated armed conflicts, and while developmental backlogs present a major risk to regional stability in the long run, currently the most acute source of instability stems from governance deficits, which in the past decade have prompted crises in many of the member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). SADC’s institutional framework for regional peace and security has proven ineffective because SADC leaders have prioritised national sovereignty over the enforcement of democratic principles. The institutions have little capacity as they lack material and political support. The governance deficits and SADC’s lacklustre conflict management may in the long run arrest development in Southern Africa.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2019. , p. 108
Series
NAI Policy Dialogue, ISSN 1654-6709 ; 14
Keywords [en]
Southern Africa, Regional development, Regional cooperation, Governance, African organizations, Conflict management, Peace, Peacekeeping, Regional security, Southern African Development Community, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Dispute settlement, Institutional framework
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-2322ISBN: 978-91-7106-853-8 (print)ISBN: 978-91-7106-854-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-2322DiVA, id: diva2:1351257
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CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. -- 2. Regional trends and enduring. -- 3. The development of SADC’s institutional framework and policies on regional peace and security. -- 4. Southern African hot spots and hotbeds of conflict. -- 5. Conclusion.

Available from: 2019-09-13 Created: 2019-09-13 Last updated: 2019-09-16Bibliographically approved

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