Kristiana Powell’s research while affiliated with The North South Institute and other places

... Yet, as Tieku, Obi, and Scorgie-Porter (2014 , 4) note, there is a "research lacuna relate[d] to the near-absence of theoretically grounded discussions on APSA," which points to the incapacity of dominant peace and security theories to "captur[e] APSA's (rather complex) realities." Theorizing these Africa-centered initiatives requires paying close attention to their ideological blueprint, which are to be found in Pan-Africanist principles and Pax Africana ( Edozie 2014 , see also Dersso 2012 ) 21 or what can be referred to as Pax Pan-Africana ( Powell and Tieku 2005a ;Powell and Tieku 2005b ). ...

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Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha

... Furthermore, this transformation brought in certain fundamental shifts in the politics and policy of regionalism on the continent, especially the introduction of certain fundamental caveats in the Constitutive Act of the AU that include the replacement of the policy of non-interference to that of non-indifference, the establishment of a common security and defence policy under the umbrella of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), as a policy roadmap geared towards tackling the various security challenges facing the continent (Powell & Tieku 2005;Kwesi & Atuobi, 2009;Besada, 2010;Vines 2013;Williams, 2014). However, the experience of the AU since its transformation also exposes the fundamental challenge to peace and security. ...

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The Strategic Security Engagement between the African Union and the European Union in Conflict Management in Africa: The Challenges

... This process can be accelerated by pragmatic commitment to regional and sub-regional integration programmes articulated in the AU and other sub-regional bodies to transcend the fallacy of independent national development by Africa's derelict post-colonial formations. As Powell and Tieku (2015) argues, it is important to note that the challenges confronting the AU's new security regime are so huge and complex. Presently, the AU does not have the financial resources to implement many of its proposed changes. ...

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Leadership Ineptitude, Security Deficit and Sustainable Development Crisis in Sub- Sahara Africa

... This security-development nexus and programming are expressed in enabling documents of African Union (AU), and in particular the protocol establishing the Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa (CSSDCA), the framework document of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) (Burton, Powell, Tieku, & Akuffo, 2004), which all acknowledge that development and integration goal/objectives need to be reconciled with the task of conflict prevention, conflict management, peacekeeping, and even, at times, peace enforcement (Schalkkwyk, 2015). This is so because of the empirical evidence on the destructive interface between state fragility, violent social conflict and underdevelopment crisis in Africa. ...

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Leadership Ineptitude, Security Deficit and Sustainable Development Crisis in Sub- Sahara Africa