Conflict and Poverty in Africa

Ebenezer Durojaye is a professor of law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His areas of research include human rights, socioeconomic rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and constitutionalism. He has written extensively in these areas. He is the editor and co-editor of over ten books in his areas of research.Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi is a researcher and the acting head of the Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, a prominent think tank based at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (UWC), renowned for its rigorous law and policy research, teaching, and governance and human rights advocacy across the African continent. Gladys’ research expertise and interest are focused on critical issues that include the intersectionality between poverty and human rights in Africa; gender dimensions in the analysis of laws and policies related to housing; and implications of organed crime on the rule of law and anti-corruption measures. Through her research, she aims to advance understanding and implementation of policies that advance socioeconomic rights, foster social justice and promotion of inclusive societies. Gladys holds an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. As a testament to her scholarly influence, Gladys serves as the co-editor of the ESR Review, a respected quarterly publication dedicated to informing and educating policymakers, civil society members, the academic community, and legal practitioners about pivotal developments in socioeconomic rights at both national and international levels. John-Mark Iyi, PhD, is an associate professor and Director of the African Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice in the UWC Faculty of Law. He received his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr Iyi researches public international law and international legal theory with special focus on African perspectives in international peace and security, humanitarian intervention, democratization, the responsibility to protect, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, terrorism, and transnational organized crime. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention and the AU-ECOWAS Intervention Treaties Under International Law (Springer: 2016) and co-editor (with Hennie Strydom) of Boko Haram and International Law (2018). Usang Maria Assim, PhD, is an associate professor of international human rights law and a senior researcher in the Children’s Rights Project of the Dullah Omar Institute in the UWC Faculty of Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As a children’s rights expert, she works in close collaboration with the African Union Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the committee’s partners, and other civil society organizations involved with children’s rights in Africa and globally to fulfil the committee’s mandate. Among others, she is a member of the Advisory Council of the Independent Expert for the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty and is also a council member of the Global Campus of Human Rights, a network of over 100 member universities playing a leading role in human rights and democratization education, research, and advocacy.

• CHAPTER 1: Exploring the Link between conflict and poverty in Africa CHAPTER 2: Taming the Tiger? Understanding the nature, causes and dynamics of conflict in Africa CHAPTER 3: Poverty, Conflict and Gender in Africa CHAPTER 4: Conflict and poverty in Cameroon: Cyclical contradictions resulting from socio-economic development injustices CHAPTER 5: Conflict and poverty in Nigeria CHAPTER 6: Conflict and poverty in the Eastern region of the democratic republic of the Congo and the socio-economic challenges faced by Congolese women CHAPTER 7: Children, poverty and (post) conflict in Northern Uganda. A contextual evaluation of Northern Uganda’s Peace, Recovery and Development Plan CHAPTER 8: Hope deferred: Conflict and poverty in South Sudan CHAPTER 9: Conflict and poverty in the Central African Republic CHAPTER 10: The nexus between conflict and poverty: Lessons from South Africa’s struggle for freedom and human rights CHAPTER 11: Conflict and poverty in the Tigray state of Ethiopia CHAPTER 12: The socio-economic impact of conflicts in Africa: Challenges for the African Union CHAPTER 13: Navigating poverty and state fragility in the West African microcosm: The ECOWAS, ubuntu, and human security trialogue CHAPTER 14: Conflict prevention as a tool for poverty mitigation in West Africa: The role of ECOWAS CHAPTER 15: Conflict hotspots and implications on pockets of poverty in the East African community CHAPTER 16: Conflict and poverty in Southern Africa: A critical appraissal of SADC’s conflict management and poverty alleviation mandate CHAPTER 17: Corruption, conflict and poverty in Africa CHAPTER 18: Governance deficit and youth participation in violent conflict in West African Sahel: evidence from selected countries CHAPTER 19: Ending Conflicts and poverty in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: ‘An impossible mission’?