Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Introducing African Security Central/WHAT IS IT

[MsJo...@aol.com]

Great...... this worthy, thrilling  project is not undertaken by Africans  as subjects of their own inquiries and security? It is a  project manned by foreign experts with Africa and Africans as objects of these insights and lessons for security? Is so, Africans, their governments and others should utilize Jason Warner's and Bob Feldman's ( aka US based Africanists ) knowledge and perspectives. That's fine. Nature abhors a vacuum. If Africans (themselves) do not champion their own critical development; external sources will define it.

 

What is the carving of Africa about - Sub-Saharan  -when the ramifications of Africa's security is Continental - from North to South, East to West?

 

Just asking to understand the project. Mr. Chambi, you appear to be  just a messenger. If you have no answer, that is okay

 

MsJoe

 

 

 

In a message dated 5/22/2013 9:15:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cham...@yahoo.com writes:

Subject: [UDADISI: Rethinking in Action] Introducing African Security Central

Dear friends - 

Good morning, and I hope you're well. 

I am thrilled to write this morning to share with you a project that I've been working on lately with my colleague Bob Feldman, a website entitled African Security Central. 

In short, African Security Central is an open source resource that aspires to help government policymakers, academics, journalists, and students find the broadest array of information on African security affairs in the most centralized and convenient form possible. 

As you'll see if you elect to visit the site, we have disaggregated various dimensions of African security by state and topic, listing various resources for research, teaching, and learning on each. Moreover, under our "Research Resources" pages, we have assembled a breadth of academic syllabi, datasets, maps, newspapers, and institutional resources germane to the study of African security. 

Given that this endeavor is inevitably under constant evolution, we would greatly appreciate any comments, suggestions, or resources that you could offer to help us improve the site. Particularly, we would be pleased to add links to any of your own articles, books, reports, or syllabi if you would be so willing to share. 

We sincerely hope that this website will be of use to you, your colleagues, and your students, and thus we encourage you to share this email with any potentially interested parties. 

Thanks so much for your consideration of this project, and we'll look forward to hearing your thoughts soon!

With best wishes,

Jason 

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[Chambi Chachage]

Good questions. I am forwarding them to Jason. From my reading of it, it is more of a place to get information from all sources, including those from/in Africa e.g.

African Think Tanks on Security

CODESRIA

Institute for Security Studies 

Other: 

Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Ajoy Datta, “Think Tanks in Sub-Saharan Africa: How The Political Landscape Impacted Their Origins,” Oversees Development Institute, December 2011.

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