Peace & Security
The Wars We Choose Not to See: Media Attention, Moral Hierarchy, and the Conflicts the World Ignores

Despite devastating death tolls and record displacement in Sudan, Ethiopia and the DRC, Africa’s gravest conflicts receive a fraction of the global media and policy attention devoted to wars elsewhere.

African Union
Africa in a Global Interregnum

Africa must strengthen its collective geopolitical agency, reform global institutions and pursue pragmatic partnerships to shape a more inclusive international order amid growing global rivalry and instability.
Governance
The Oasis Punctured: War, the Gulf, and the Scenarios for Migration

The US-Israel-Iran war's impact on Gulf migration will bifurcate along migrant type and skill lines. While investors, tourists, and highly skilled migrants will increasingly look elsewhere, low-skilled and irregular migrants will continue flowing to the Gulf, with few alternatives available to them, regardless of the conflict's outcome.
Peace & Security
A Peace Agreement in Terminal Crisis: What Is at Stake?

The African Union’s overlapping Horn of Africa appointments raise urgent questions as Ethiopia and Tigray face renewed conflict amid the continued failure to implement the Pretoria Agreement.
Peace & Security
A Peace Agreement in Terminal Crisis

Three years after the Pretoria Agreement silenced Africa's deadliest war, research with 103 participants finds a fragile negative peace — the guns are quiet, but constitutional order, justice, reconstruction and oversight remain unrealised.
Peace & Security
Revitalization of the African Peace and Security Architectures

The Pan African Agenda Institute’s Innovating the Future Initiative empowers African leaders and Gen Z to strengthen peace, democratic governance and Africa’s geopolitical agency through research, dialogue, mentorship and institutional reform.

Peace & Security
Three Years into the Pretoria Agreement: Where does it stand?

Research involving over 100 participants reveals systematic implementation failures across virtually all substantive provisions of the Agreement.
Peace & Security
Closed-door launch of PAAI's Pretoria Agreement Implementation Report(PAIR)

PAAI launched the Pretoria Agreement Implementation Report in Nairobi, examining progress, rising Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions, and risks to peace in the Horn of Africa.
Geopolitics & Multilateralism
The Red Sea: Divided by Water, United by Opportunities

The Red Sea is back. But the old rules that governed this vital global waterway are gone, replaced by a volatile and crowded landscape of both old and new actors.
African Union
Is Africa’s premier continental organization, the African Union, fit for purpose?

As global order shifts, Africa faces rising conflict, displacement, and instability, testing the African Union’s Peace and Security Architecture in a volatile era.
Governance
Is Africa’s premier continental organization, the African Union, fit for purpose?

As global order shifts, Africa faces rising conflict, displacement, and instability, testing the African Union’s Peace and Security Architecture in a volatile era.