Tana Forum: Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows on Peace and Security in Africa
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Lopes, Carlos;United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa;
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Key note address by Carlos Lopes UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA. Mr. Lopes, on his personal opinion highlighted that, since the early 1990s, most African countries have witnessed varied democratic transitions. Almost all democratic transitions have had to navigate the complexities and challenges of managing diversity in its various forms: the distribution of power and characteristics of political structures; issues of ethnicity and religion; definition of citizenship; or rights and concerns of marginalized groups. In many African countries, human insecurity can certainly be linked to bad governance and lack of democratic practice. Fueled by the geopolitics of the cold war, almost half of the Africa’s countries experienced some form or level of violent conflict during the post-independence era. That included civil wars, armed insurgencies, coup d’état’s, regional rebellions and social unrest. It is true that in Africa, we have pervasive conflicts such as the ones in the Great Lakes Region and Somalia, but these we hope are the remnants in a changing reality. Causes of conflict can be a complex mixture of issues affecting different stakeholders in Africa. The magnifying of tension points contributes to entrench conflict. Funding belligerent becomes attractive to many, provided the logic of the dispute brings economic gains. Illicit financial flows and weak state capacity are symbiotic; and tend to reinforce each other. Transnational cartels operating as net warriors are a threat to state sovereignty.
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“Lopes, Carlos; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa (2014-04). Tana Forum: Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows on Peace and Security in Africa. Tana Forum Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows on Peace and Security in Africa (2014, Apr. 26: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia). Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/36615”Conference
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