Africa Week highlights efforts to address climate-change and migration in relation to peace and security
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Climate-Change-Migration nexus and its implications for peace and security in Africa, speakers and representatives from member states, private sector and civil society organizations attending the 2017 Africa Week shared diverse perspectives from their respective mandates, with close attention paid to the implications for young people and women. Speaking at the session, Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa said that peace and security provide an enabling environment for sustainable development, while development maintains peace and stability. “We must all play our part. We owe that to the future generations of the continent and to realize the aspirations of Agenda 2063.” She highlighted some initiatives that the ECA has been undertaking in this realm, which include research on the causes of conflict and its consequences on development in three African regions –the Sahel, the Horn and the Great Lakes. The results from these studies, she said, indicate that violent conflicts involving pastoralist communities have become widespread in many African countries, particularly in the Sahel and Horn regions.