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Southern Voices:
Peacebuilding in CAR: How the AU Can Be More Effective
›By Gustavo de Carvalho & Amanda Lucey // Friday, August 19, 2016
A MINUSCA soldier distributes food aid in Bangui. Photo by UN Photo/Catianne Tijerina, via Flickr. Creative Commons.
In February, Faustin-Archange Touadéra was elected president of the Central African Republic (CAR), ending a three-year-long transition in the country. This has given CAR a new opportunity to achieve and sustain peace by addressing the complex array of political, economic, and social causes of the conflict.
International organizations have been active in supporting CAR’s transition in recent years, but with limited results. One of these organizations, the African Union (AU), is now evaluating ways to be more effective. In particular, the AU is looking for better ways to address the long-term drivers of conflicts – in CAR, but also elsewhere – through its post-conflict reconstruction and development (PCRD) framework.
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