Friday 7th August - 2009

The main focus of this publication is the link between South Africa`s grand pan-African ambitions, especially in the area of peace, security and governance, and its own capacity to pursue these objectives. Specifically, the paper examines Pretoria`s involvement in Africa, and internal capacity to support its mediation, peacekeeping and strengthening the abilities of African institutions for peacemaking Read more...

Thursday 6th May - 2010

Since Kenya`s return to pluralist politics in 1992, all evidence suggests the country is loosing the war on corruption.If the trend continues, Kenya will not realise its Vision 2030 of becoming a middle-income and industrial country. to reverse the trend,the country needs to institute far-reaching reforms of the constitution to nurture institutions and norms of accountability. It also requires building strong anti-corruption institutions with the necessary power to prosecute perpetrators of corruption and to revitalise civil society and citizen lobbies to spearhead the war on graft. This report is an attempt by the African Policy Institute to examine the impact of the crisis of democratic transition on the struggle to control corruption. The report shows that the authoritarian one-party regimes of Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi effectively stifled the emergencies of strong institutions to combat corruption. A poisonous mix of corrupt client-patron relations, ethnic politics, and s... Read more...

Wednesday 15th July - 2009

The plunging of Kenya, long a centre of stability and growth in East Africa, into political and economic uncertainty following the general election of December 2007 is regarded as a major cause for global and African concern. It is widely accepted that the elections were deeply flawed, and that there was electoral malfeasance by all the major players. President Kibaki`s rapid declaration of victory in the face of a heavily disputed election and his determination to hold on to the levers of state power precipitated a deadly crisis, communal violence and economic decline. A power-sharing deal between Kibaki and Opposition leader, Raila Odinga signed in February seems to be holding, but Kenya ranks among the worlds’ growing number of democracies at-risk. Read more...

Friday 24th July - 2009

Over two-thirds of the world’s refugees are trapped in protracted refugee situations, struggling to survive in remote and insecure parts of the world. This volume brings together a collection of eminent scholars and practitioners to explore the sources, nature and consequences of these situations and the record of the international community’s attempts to find durable solutions. On this basis, the volume presents new thinking to address protracted refugee situations that incorporates security and development—as well as humanitarian—actors and attempts to reconcile the policy difficulties which have obstructed progress for many years. Read more...