Pascale Marthine Tayou

Artist (Sculpture, drawing)

Cameroon

‍pascalemarthinetayou.com

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Peace Operations Training Centre

Peacekeeping Training Centre

Pretoria, South Africa

peaceopstraining.org or pmtc.co.za

Description

The Centre offers various training courses in United Nations Peace Support Operations.

Peace and Development Center

Non-Governmental Organization

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Contact: aytenne@gmail.com

pdcethiopia.org

Description:

The center undertakes work on conflict prevention, conflict resolution, peacebuilding and development in Ethiopia, and the horn of Africa.

Peacekeeping Support Operations Training Centre

Peacekeeping Training Centre

Location: Salima, Malawi

peaceopstraining.org

Description

The Center offers peacekeeping courses for military personnel, police and civilians in Africa.

Pearce, Justin. “Control, Politics and Identity in The Angolan Civil War”. African Affairs, London, 111(444), (2012) 442–465. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ads028

This article explores political mobilization, legitimacy, and identity in the Angolan Central Highlands from the anti-colonial struggle of the 1960s until the end of the civil war in 2002. The article examines how the rival movements, MPLA and UNITA, competed for support, and considers the nature of the relationships between political-military elites and the Angolan people.

Source: excerpt from article abstract

Peel, J. D. Y. Religious encounter and the making of the Yoruba. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2003.

The author contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in themid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.

[Source: Indiana University Press]

Eric Pelser

Program Head, Institute for Security Studies

NGO

South Africa

iss@issafrica.org

Peltier, Jean-Philippe N. “Rethinking Africa's Military”. American Foreign Policy Interests, 32:4, (2010) 219-228, DOI: 10.1080/10803920.2010.501208

The United States and many of its allies pour significant resources into funds for military cooperation and training efforts in Africa. But might that assistance need to be reconfigured both to benefit Africans and to achieve America's long-term objectives? The article first examines Africa's desire for traditional military forces against its actual, questionable need for such. It then looks at two central challenges of African militaries: their tendency to project power and the predatory nature of many of them. To counter those tendencies, incentives must be developed for a “developmental military”—to which end the formation of the new U.S. Africa Command is an opportunity to take a fresh look at the continent based on reality and partnering with African states to build the security forces that they truly need.

Source: Article abstract