Arms Trafficking and Border Governance Responses to Countering It in Africa
Channel: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date: 2023-01-17

Session Objectives:
• Understand the key actors involved in arms trafficking and place their activities into local political and economic contexts.
• Explore the ways that arms trafficking affects and involves different members of border communities, both in terms of harm to civilian populations, as well as the benefits that certain people may reap by being proximate to this criminal market.
• Discuss the ways that security sector actors can use border governance frameworks and approaches to mitigate harm to civilian populations while addressing arms trafficking.

Panelists:

Dr. Mutoy Mubiala,
Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Kinshasa (DRC) and Vice-President of the African Academy for International Law Practice

Captain Dean Gillespie,
Director, Krino International Consultancy Group

Moderator:

Dr. Catherine Lena Kelly
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Justice and Rule of Law, Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Click here for the Program webpage, with recommended readings and panelist biographies:
https://africacenter.org/programs/2022ctoc-bc-border-governance-approaches-countering-transnational-organized-crime/#session4

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