The Horn of Africa has suffered through decades
of destruction and extraordinary human suffering due to long and interrelated
wars. All countries in the Horn, including Uganda and Kenya, still
endure some level of armed conflict, though this varies in scope,
intensity, and nature.
Post-war societies are fragile, and in each case they
are in danger of regressing to open armed conflict. The threats to human
security, sustainable development and political stability posed
by many factors - small arms and light weapons, scarce resources,
economic disparity, political corruption, HIV/AIDS and on-going
armed conflict as in the Darfur region of Sudan - still remain.
In order to tackle these problems, a broader security building process
needs to take shape and gain momentum in the region.
During 2007 to 2009, Project Ploughshares and Africa
Peace Forum (based in Nairobi, Kenya) undertook a research and public dialogue project,
with support from the International Development Research Centre,
to gradually elaborate credible analyses and policy options for
cooperative security arrangements in the Horn of Africa. This effort resulted in a book entitled, Human Security: Setting the Agenda for the Horn of Africa, that gathered the research papers produced in the course of the project.
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