Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009

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dc.contributor.advisorAkokpari, Johnen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNagar, Dawn Isabelen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-30T03:51:32Z
dc.date.available2014-07-30T03:51:32Z
dc.date.issued2010en_ZA
dc.description.abstractBased on library research this thesis examines the contribution of the SADC's peace and security efforts towards enhancing the larger security on the African continent. While it is acknowledged that peace and security involve peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace building; the research focused only on the peace and security mechanisms of SADC between 1966 and 2009. A central argument is that the SADC's peace and security system does enhance the evolution of a wider AU peace and security architecture. In furtherance of this argument, the thesis addressed the evolution of SADC from its predecessor the SADCC, the evolution of the African Stand by Force and the role of SADC in this process. In the end the study identified the necessity for certain policy reforms to ensure SADC's better contribution to AU's over all peace and security architecture: i) being donor-driven, SADC should remain the driver of its projects and set its own agenda for projects and strengthen its financial management systems in order to attract international funding; ii) SADC members should commit themselves to implementing its policies and strengthening its National Committees (SNCs); iii) The responsibilities of the SADC secretariat need to be revisited to grant it more executive powers on decision-making for achieving its security agenda; iv) Limited and inadequate staffing hampers SADC's overall security objectives, therefore, the SADC secretariat must be supported with additional capacity in competent programme management, planning, monitoring, finance, procurement and administration; and, v) HIV/Aids remains a challenge for SADC's peacekeepers and a policy should be implemented to cater for peacekeepers by specifying a timeframe and length of period for deployment of military personnel on peacekeeping missions with a moratorium set for much high ranking officials overseeing such missions.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNagar, D. I. (2010). <i>Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3760en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNagar, Dawn Isabel. <i>"Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3760en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNagar, D. 2010. Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Nagar, Dawn Isabel AB - Based on library research this thesis examines the contribution of the SADC's peace and security efforts towards enhancing the larger security on the African continent. While it is acknowledged that peace and security involve peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace building; the research focused only on the peace and security mechanisms of SADC between 1966 and 2009. A central argument is that the SADC's peace and security system does enhance the evolution of a wider AU peace and security architecture. In furtherance of this argument, the thesis addressed the evolution of SADC from its predecessor the SADCC, the evolution of the African Stand by Force and the role of SADC in this process. In the end the study identified the necessity for certain policy reforms to ensure SADC's better contribution to AU's over all peace and security architecture: i) being donor-driven, SADC should remain the driver of its projects and set its own agenda for projects and strengthen its financial management systems in order to attract international funding; ii) SADC members should commit themselves to implementing its policies and strengthening its National Committees (SNCs); iii) The responsibilities of the SADC secretariat need to be revisited to grant it more executive powers on decision-making for achieving its security agenda; iv) Limited and inadequate staffing hampers SADC's overall security objectives, therefore, the SADC secretariat must be supported with additional capacity in competent programme management, planning, monitoring, finance, procurement and administration; and, v) HIV/Aids remains a challenge for SADC's peacekeepers and a policy should be implemented to cater for peacekeepers by specifying a timeframe and length of period for deployment of military personnel on peacekeeping missions with a moratorium set for much high ranking officials overseeing such missions. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009 TI - Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3760 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/3760
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNagar DI. Towards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3760en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherInternational Relationsen_ZA
dc.titleTowards A Pax Africana: Southern African development community's architecture and evolving peacekeeping efforts, 1996 - 2009en_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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