Afrika’da Barış ve Güvenliğin İnşasında Kıtasal Yaklaşım: Afrika Barış ve Güvenlik Mimarisi
Continental Approach to Peace and Security Building in Africa: African Peace and Security Architecture

Summary/Abstract: Africa, as per its area and population density, is the second largest continent of the world and the most insecure region in terms of peace and security. Both colonial history and cyclical environment makes it difficult to establish peace and security in the continent. Unsteadiness in Africa is derived from economic and politic weakness of countries; existence of socio-politic environment that increase ethnic tensions; some rare sources that produce conflict environment and natural resources that are subjects to global rivalry and a great number of other reasons. Initiatives, which are directed to establish peace and security in Africa, are limited and insufficient. Since 1963, the efforts of Organization of African Unity could not prevented conflicts in Africa. The organization, which was transformed and called as African Union in 2002 with its African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), has been pursuing efforts to maintain peace and security. In this essay, within the direction of current threats to security in the changing world, African Peace and Security Architecture related to continental and global security, is analyzed in the context of African Union, which is the third institutionalization in the integration process of Africa.

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