Welcome

In recent decades, the international community has witnessed problems across the world, from political instability, non-state violence to economic constraints and climate change, all of these are factors that have led to conflicts in the world today. Africa, for instance, holds the highest number of conflict casualties in the world. There have been over 9 million refugees and internally displaced people from conflicts in Africa with hundreds and thousands of people slaughtered in several civil wars, communal conflicts and terrorism in West Africa. If this scale of devastation and hostility was in Europe, people would be calling it World War III and the entire world would be rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation. Yet, the international community’s intervention or attention continues to be extremely minimal in West Africa. Against this background that WAPAN attempts to contribute to the global peace agenda, thereby promoting peace education, youth and leadership development and working towards the cessation of war in West Africa.