The African Union Non-Indifference Stance
Lessons from Sudan and Libya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3750320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ndubuisi Christian Ani (0000-0002-2457-6624, corresponding author), Ndubuisi Christian Ani Ndubuisi Christian Ani |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2156-7263 • E-ISSN: 2156-695X |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/africonfpeacrevi.6.2.01 |
| OpenAlex | W2558619479 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
The legal and policy documents of the African Union (AU) are founded on a human security paradigm that obliges the continental body to maintain a non-indifference stance on human rights abuses. This doctrine of non-indifference departs from the state-centric security principle of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which gave excessive privileges to state elites. Although the AU has intervened to address security challenges in the continent, misgivings persist that the continental body’s interventions continually favor state regimes at the expense of the human rights of ordinary citizens. Adducing the cases of the AU’s responses to the conflicts in Sudan (2004–07) and Libya (2011), this article examines the credibility of the AU’s non-indifference stance to gross human rights violations. The study contends that the undue influence of state regimes on the AU’s initiatives as well as its limited capacity for intervention raise doubts on the continental body’s purported transition from a state-centric framework to a human security paradigm
Credibility · Doctrine · Human rights · Human security · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |