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Understanding Success and Failure in the Quest for Peace: The Pan-African Parliament and the Amani Forum

In: The Hague Journal of Diplomacy
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Konstantinos Magliveras Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean 85100 Rhodes Greece kmagliveras@rhodes.aegean.gr

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Asteris Huliaras Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese 20100 Corinth Greece huliaras@uop.gr

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Parliaments in Africa have traditionally been sidelined with regard to security and peace issues. This article compares the Pan-African Parliament, the parliamentary organ of the African Union, with the Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace, better known as the Amani Forum, which started as an informal regional network and later developed more formal structures. The analysis focuses on the role of these two institutions in conflict prevention. While the Amani Forum provides an excellent example of the potential contribution of parliamentary forums to promoting and restoring peace, the Pan-African Parliament has been unable to operate as an effective parliamentary organ in conflict resolution and prevention. The article examines several factors that can explain the contrasting performances of the two institutions: their formal and informal structures; different membership and organizational structures; the density and quality of intra-institutional ties; as well as differences in geographical and thematic focus.

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