Reimagining Security Communities

lt;p>Francis Onditi heads the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Riara University, Kenya. He is also enlisted as a distinguished Author and Research Professor at the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the 2019 recipient of the AISA Fellowship awarded by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa. He is a widely published pan-African scholar with focus on the geography of conflicts and African institutional evolution theory. He is the author of Conflictology: Systems, Institutions and Mechanisms in Africa.   

Gilad Ben-Nun is Senior Lecturer at Leipzig University's Research Centre Global Dynamics, Germany. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Leibniz Institute GWZO, Germany, where he teaches Global Studies and the History of International Law.

Edmond M. Were is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kisii University, Kenya. He has previously taught at universities in Kenya and Rwanda. He is a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) scholar.

Israel Nyaburi Nyadera is a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. He is also a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey.

lt;p>Chapter 1: Regional Security Community.- Chapter 2: Approaches to Regional Security Analysis.- Chapter 3: Regional Security Community Arrangement in Africa.- Chapter 4:  African Peace and Security Architecture: Fit for Purpose?.- Chapter 5: Evolution of the African Standby Force.- Chapter 6: African Union-led Peace Support Operations.- Chapter 7: From Security Communities to Security Systems.- Chapter 8: Partnership in Peace Support Operations.- Chapter 9: Building Actors' Relationship through Concentric Rims.- Chapter 10: A Synchronic Dialogue and the Emerging Concept of Legal Security in Africa.- Chapter 11: How to Build Maritime Human Security Systems .- Chapter 12: Dominatarianism and Security Community Systems.

"The book provides helpful insights into how to better organise Africa-led PSOS on the continent. If well executed, and with proper political support and commitment, the interagency approach and multidimensional peace operations ... which are endorsed in the book - are commendable and could help change the security landscape in Africa. ... Students, policy-makers, civil society, and other actors interested in African security issues and regional governance will find some of the ideas in the book valuable." (Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Yearbook on the African Union, Vol. 2, 2021)

“The book provides helpful insights into how to better organise Africa-led PSOS on the continent. If well executed, and with proper political support and commitment, the interagency approach and multidimensional peace operations … which are endorsed in the book — are commendable and could help change the security landscape in Africa. … Students, policy-makers, civil society, and other actors interested in African security issues and regional governance will find some of the ideas in the book valuable.” (Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Yearbook on the African Union, Vol. 2, 2021)