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SUMMARY:Workshop 1: « Reforming the security sector in Africa: what answers to the capability challenges of the Armed Forces? »
DESCRIPTION:Context\nAfrica is faced with a changing array of threats and of threats and risks that have marked the daily lives of of states since the 1960s. Wars of national liberation of national liberation have been followed by intra-state conflicts in the 1990s. Just as deadly, the jihadist wave of the early 21st century is progressing in a context where states are severely weakened by the economic impact of exogenous crises and endogenous weaknesses such as poverty, the burden of debt and a fractured social body.\nAs security is an important pillar of stability, building the capacity of its actors remains an essential component of any security sector reform process on the continent. Currently, in several African countries, the disproportionate use of force, repeated irruptions in political life with a view to seizing power, poor security governance, and serious shortcomings in the prevention and fight against insecurity contribute to making the defense and security forces factors of insecurity and instability. Based on the premise that security is one of the major conditions for development, the Security Sector Reform (SSR) aims to correct these dysfunctions in order to restore the security systems’ capacity to carry out their regalian missions under all circumstances, i.e., State sovereignty and the protection of people and their property. Contemporary conflicts on the continent have evolved considerably and have now become cross-border and nomadic. For reasons of expediency, several non-state actors in these conflicts, including armed groups groups, are becoming autonomous from both their political leaders and sometimes even the original causes for which they for which they took up arms; these armed groups are doing everything possible to to extend and consolidate their actions beyond state borders, creating vast areas of lawlessness in of lawlessness in areas where the governance of the the governance of the state is structurally deficient. This negative evolution of the general security situation situation and the responses that states are currently trying to to respond to it have highlighted major capacity deficits have brought to light major capacity deficits of state security actors, in particular national armies national armies, and call for a new, more collective approach. collective approach. The most affected countries need to engage in a reform of their security sector of their security sector in the framework of a strengthened international cooperation that can provide a collective response to that can provide a collective response to national security national security problems that have taken on a regional regional scope. In this perspective, special attention should be paid to particular attention must be paid to the search for efficient efficient solutions to the capability challenges of national armies, which remain the pillars of any emergency of any emergency security response to crises. In particular, it will be necessary to find lasting solutions to the complex equation of reorganization, modernization modernization, armament, equipment, training and and training of the national armies, and above all their and especially their reorientation towards operational security activities which are their their core business.\n\nObjectives\nTo propose realistic responses to the current capability challenges of challenges of African national armies, within the framework of within the framework of a security sector reform.\n\n\nIssues to be addressed\n\nWhat are the major current capability challenges facing African armies in the face of a mutating insecurity that directly threatens the stability of several States?\nWhat model of defense and security forces to face the multiple security challenges?\nWhat national and international approaches for appropriate and sustainable responses to the capacity deficits identified in national armies?\nWhat sustainable responses to the recurrent difficulties of financing SSR processes in Africa?\n\n
URL:https://dakarforum.org/en/events/workshop-1-reforming-the-security-sector-in-africa-what-answers-to-the-capability-challenges-of-the-armed-forces/
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