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Urge Congress to invest more in prevention

ECOWAS member states have been urged to urgently prioritise the participation of women and the youth in the democratic governance process.

Exploring the possibility of finding alternatives to the politics of winner-takes-all has been identified as one of the ways of fostering greater participation and inclusion in democracy and good governance among member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

The Co-Founder and Board Chairman of Afrobarometer, a Pan-African Research network, Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, has advocated the establishment of an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Democratic Governance Monitoring and Crisis Intervention Group.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana and Chair of ECOWAS delivered the following Address on December 8 2021, in Accra, Ghana, at the 2021 Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum. Check Against Delivery I am happy to be here this morning to participate in the 2nd Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum, which was... Read More

The second Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8 and Thursday, December 9, 2021 at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

The Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum was initiated in 2019 as an annual event to bring together political leaders, diplomats, scholars and experts to dialogue and take steps to address contemporary peace and security issues on the African continent.

The report, ‘Democratic Backsliding in West Africa: Nature, Causes, Remedies’ was commissioned by the Kofi Annan Foundation ahead of the 2021 Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum. The theme of the 2021 edition of the KAPS Forum is ‘Democracy and Governance in the Context of Complex Crises in West Africa’ and this report, authored... Read More

The second edition of the Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum (KAPS Forum) will come off from Wednesday, December 8 to Thursday, December 9, 2021. | Pulse Ghana

The Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum was initiated in 2019 as an annual event to bring together political leaders, diplomats, scholars and experts to dialogue and take steps to address contemporary peace and security issues on the African continent.