African Leadership Centre (ALC)

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The African Leadership Centre explores issues of peace, leadership, development and security. Together with its partners, the Centre seeks to inform and influence debate, teaching and learning, as well as policy discourses in both Africa and globally.

More than a decade of researching peacebuilding and state-building in Africa shows that the nature of the state is invariably at the core of the challenge of conflict relapse. There is a need to re-examine the evolution and role of the state in building and sustaining peace. The liberal peacebuilding approach has not managed to deliver stable peace. However, state-building remains a factor that cannot be easily jettisoned. So, the questions remain:

• what is the role of the state in the path to stable peace?
• how is society impacted by the state and vice versa?

The Centre runs master's and fellowship programmes for African scholars and has a semi-autonomous research and training sister centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

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King's College London (KCL)
London

Partner Infrastructures

Africa Research Group

The Africa Research Group provides a hub for Africa-focused research within the Department of War Studies and across King's College London. It brings together staff and research students working on a … read more about Africa Research Group

London

Additional Partnerships

Not For Sale; African Leadership Centre (ALC) Nairobi, Kenya; Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya; University of Buea, Cameroon; NEEM Foundation, Nigeria; University of Pretoria, South Africa