The Policy Center for the New South will organize the 7th edition of the African Peace and Security Annual Conference (APSACO) in Rabat on July 10-11 under the theme “Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa”.
The conference provides a platform for the analysis of Africa’s peace and security structures and institutions by focusing on the continent’s assets, history, and ability to overcome current challenges.
It will be attended by Catherine Samba-Panza, former President of the Central African Republic, Mohamed El-Amine Souef, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Sandra Adong Oder, Head of Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development Unit, the African Union, and others.
Badreddine El Harti, Director, of Security Institutions Service United Nations Support Mission in Libya, and Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, Senior Counsel, Hamilton-Advisors Inc, will also attend.
A statement from APSACO said Africa seeks to provide a policy framework for reconstruction, adding that the African Union adopted a political framework for reconstruction and development after the post-conflict phase in 2006, and the establishment of the African Solidarity Initiative (ASI) in July 2012 to coordinate continental financial contributions to the program.
The PCRD review workshop, organized by the AU Peace and Security Commission (PSC) in Accra, in September 2022, proposes a better-tailored understanding that is more adapted to the new challenges.
These realities are not only limited to the changing nature of crises but also to the issues of financing, the new forms of partnerships, among others.
Thirty experts are expected at this year’s conference, including Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Ambassador, Director-General, the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding (CCCPA); Frank Hanson, Air Vice Marshall, Gulf of Guinea Maritime Institute; Abu Bakarr Bah, Presidential Research Professor, Northern Illinois University; and Margaret Janes-Lucas, Regional Director – Sahel, Tony Blair Institute.
Moreover, an annual report on Africa’s geopolitics will be issued led by Abdelhak Bassou, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South, on July 11.
