Conflict, Security and the Right to Development in Africa

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 3.3/4, , course: Law, language: English, abstract: Conflict security and development in Africa has generated such a constant international debate in the recent decades. The prevailing discourse on these matters has rather been pessimistic. The prevalence of armed conflicts within certain phases of the African colonial state, the regression of socio-economic indicators, poor democratic processes as a result of the bad leadership from political elites and widespread corruption. We must underscore that conflicts are inevitable in society however if poorly handled it retard the enforcement of the right to development. This grounded in the human rights-based approach which seeks to ensure that the state who is duty bearer put in mechanisms to ensure that the generic needs of society are identified secured and protected. On the whole this paper presents an examination of conflict security, causes of conflict security and their effects on the right to development, the nexus between conflict security and development within the paradigm of the human security, generic and the human rights-based approach.

Benjamin Mekinde Tonga is from Cameroon and a holder of a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Law from the University of Buea. He equally holds a professional Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa, from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and is currently expecting his doctorate degree PhD in Law 2022, from the University of Buea. Tonga has expertise in human rights investigation, documentation and reporting techniques. Protection monitoring, design and development. He has experience in project conception, design and implementation. He has gained experience working in the Non-profit organization and management section. He has held the position Protection and rule of law officer with the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) a leading human rights NGO, where his task was to provide strategic direction and vision to CHRDA's protection programming, and program quality during a period of expansion, ensuring compliance with CHRDA's mainstreaming framework, international law and protection standards and national policies, overseeing the project implementation and budgeting of protection, monitoring and information dissemination, identifying opportunities, designing and developing concept notes and proposals for other protection programming as requested, providing input on proposals from other sectors to ensure that protection is mainstreamed across CHRDA's programming and analyzing and understanding conflict dynamics and providing advice on protection issues.