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Through its priority thematic areas, PAAI aims to improve governance, peace and security, geopolitics and multilateralism and human development in Africa.

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Peace & Security
The Wars We Choose Not to See: Media Attention, Moral Hierarchy, and the Conflicts the World Ignores

Despite devastating death tolls and record displacement in Sudan, Ethiopia and the DRC, Africa’s gravest conflicts receive a fraction of the global media and policy attention devoted to wars elsewhere.

African Union
Africa in a Global Interregnum

Africa must strengthen its collective geopolitical agency, reform global institutions and pursue pragmatic partnerships to shape a more inclusive international order amid growing global rivalry and instability.
Governance
The Oasis Punctured: War, the Gulf, and the Scenarios for Migration

The US-Israel-Iran war's impact on Gulf migration will bifurcate along migrant type and skill lines. While investors, tourists, and highly skilled migrants will increasingly look elsewhere, low-skilled and irregular migrants will continue flowing to the Gulf, with few alternatives available to them, regardless of the conflict's outcome.

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Peace & Security
Whose Suffering Counts? Media Attention, Moral Priorities, and Africa's Forgotten Wars

As global attention focuses on wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Gaza, devastating conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia and the DRC remain dangerously overlooked despite their immense human cost.
Geopolitics & Multilateralism
The World's Blind Spot: Africa's Wars and the Politics of Global Attention

As wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza dominate the world's front pages, Sudan has become the largest humanitarian crisis on earth — 33.7 million people in need — while Africa's wars draw a fraction of the attention their human toll demands. What is to be done?
African Union
Is Africa's premier continental organization, the African Union, fit for purpose?

Thirty years after the genocide against the Tutsi, escalating wars, civilian deaths and displacement are exposing the African Union’s struggle to uphold “never again” amid a rapidly changing global order.
Peace & Security
A Peace Agreement in Terminal Crisis: What Is at Stake?

The African Union’s overlapping Horn of Africa appointments raise urgent questions as Ethiopia and Tigray face renewed conflict amid the continued failure to implement the Pretoria Agreement.