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This chapter proposes a number of factors that can help develop an African agenda for sustaining peace that is grounded in existing continental capacities and practices for peace. In this regard, it critically analyses the United Nations (UN) framework for sustaining peace and African Union (AU) Agenda 2063, with a view to identifying the opportunities and challenges these frameworks present in the bid toward sustaining peace. The analysis finds that despite the refreshing normative shifts ushered by these frameworks, policy and programmatic interpretations, particularly by the UN, continue to be subservient to the externally driven, liberal peacebuilding project focused on rebuilding the neo-colonial state, politics and economy. Thus, the chapter, drawing on the rich repertoire of analyses by African peace scholars and the findings of sustaining peace science researchers, proposes several pillars on which an African agenda for sustaining peace can be built.
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Mahmoud, Y., Fabiano, C.A. (2022). Sustaining Peace in Africa. In: Kuwali, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82020-6_3
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