A Global Imperative for Action: Response and Prevention to the Military Coups in Africa
Overview
The increase in unconstitutional changes of government and coups in Africa underscores the need to better understand the underlying socio-economic structural drivers of this trend and pathways for redressing them. Join the Wilson Center Africa Program and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for a public event that will explore effective prevention strategies against unconstitutional changes of government in Africa.
The event will examine how to center development in important long-term measures like security sector reform and tailored regional and international responses like sanctions and suspensions from regional bodies. The discussions will also highlight findings from a UNDP research paper, Soldiers and Citizens: Military Coups and the Need for Democratic Renewal, which finds that persistent insecurity, stagnant growth, and exclusionary economic governance—as well as low development indicators—are associated with higher coup risk.
Speakers
![Kholood Khair](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Kholood%20Khair.png)
Kholood Khair
![Jide Okeke](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/uploads/images/Jide_Okeke.jpg)
Jide Okeke
Joseph Siegle
Moderator
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