Author(s): Abdulkadir Mubarak Ph.D

In 2021 Journal VoL. 6

By UNIMAID JICOL

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.