The Role of the Security Sector in Advancing Better Integrated Border Governance in Africa
Channel: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date: 2023-06-07

Session Objectives:
• Understand complex nature of citizen security in Africa’s borderlands regions and the challenges associated with developing effective state security sector responses to respond to cross-border threats.
• Discuss the ways that security sector actors can use AU border governance frameworks and approaches to address insecurity in border regions.
• Explore how African security sector leaders from neighboring countries can work with one another to develop collaborative strategies to border insecurity.

Panelists:

Col (ret.) Abdoul Ndiaye
(Former Chief of Staff to the National Security Advisor of Senegal)

Dr. Wafula Okumu
(Executive Director, The Borders Institute)

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/#session6

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