Central African Republic and South Sudan are new entrants to the litany of human displacement & despair in Africa, so much, so the repeat of the Rwandan Genocide would be too ghastly to contemplate. This is happening despite the fact that protection & assistance to the IDPs is central to the African Union Kampala Convention. African states have legally committed themselves to promote & strengthen regional & national measures to prevent or mitigate, prohibit & eliminate root causes of internal displacement & provide durable solutions.
Furthermore, they have agreed to establish legal framework for preventing internal displacement, protecting & assisting IDPs, to establish legal framework for solidarity, cooperation, promotion of durable solutions & mutual support among States ... They have pledged to provide for the obligations & responsibilities of States & provide for the respective obligations and responsibilities of stakeholders on prevention, protection of, & assistance to, IDPs.
Nonetheless, the AU Conventions have a history of implementation deficit. They seem within reach, only to elude; they look readily tractable, only to resist realization. As we look intently into an emptiness of gruesome genocide in SS & CAR, the UNSC must focus on the most vital action of addressing the root causes of displacement, restoring security & elevating participatory humanitarian action. It must augur its decisions on soft power of conflict management approaches, alliance of ethnics and religions, peace, reconciliation, shared values, vision and resources of civil society, and Public Private Partnerships and implementation of ‘right to protect’ resolutions.
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