African Union (au) And Peace Building In Africa

This paper focuses on the African Union’s (Au) initiativesfor peace building in post conflict situation in Africa. Thispaper finds that in legal frame work, the AU’s approach topeace building is unique and qualitative unlike that in theOAU charter. This paper concludes that even though theAU to some extent has recorded successes in terms of peacebuilding in the African continent, it still faces somechallenges that need to be addressed. The AU’s overreliance on external forces for peace building in Africa isone of the challenges facing the union that should becurtailed for its undermining effort of the union andhindering African brains from initiating ways for selfreliance in resolving African internal issues. 

This paper focuses on the African Union’s (Au) initiatives
for peace building in post conflict situation in Africa. This
paper finds that in legal frame work, the AU’s approach to
peace building is unique and qualitative unlike that in the
OAU charter. This paper concludes that even though the
AU to some extent has recorded successes in terms of peace
building in the African continent, it still faces some
challenges that need to be addressed. The AU’s overreliance on external forces for peace building in Africa is
one of the challenges facing the union that should be
curtailed for its undermining effort of the union and
hindering African brains from initiating ways for selfreliance in resolving African internal issues.