PSC Ten Years On No region is more plagued with violent conflicts than Africa. The presence of more than 11 peacekeeping mis-sions composed of nearly 50,000 strong UN and AU peacekeepers in areas such as Darfur, Abyei, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as thousands of western military forces in Djibouti, are ...

Dr. Mehari Taddele Maru is the Head of African Conflict Prevention Programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). A former fellow at Harvard University, he holds a Doctorate of Legal Sciences (DSL) from JL Giessen University, a MPA from Harvard University, an MSc from the University of Oxford and a LLB from Addis Ababa ...