Social Development

 The agendas and priorities of the academia in their response to conflict can be seen through the development and application […]

 The decision-making (or perhaps more appropriately: awareness-making) process of the public is quite varied, given the many types of actors

 In many ways, it can be said that the corporate world has been responsive to conflicts in Africa. This is

 Groups with special interests in specific regions or issues, depending on their unity and financial strength are able to exert

 The general public are able to response to conflict by speaking about it with the people around them, petitioning their

 Academia also has the power to influence the media in a number of ways (although its power is generally weaker

 We have seen in the previous articles that, like policymakers outside the continent, the media also have a tendency to

 As seen in the previous articles, the domination in the news of certain conflicts means that there is precious little

 INTRODUCTION The media is an actor that ‘speaks’ rather than ‘acts’. Its primary role in responding to conflict is to

 We have seen in the previous topic trends suggesting that policymakers outside the continent attach a low priority to conflicts

 In this article, we will see that, on the whole, conflict in Africa has marginalised by outside policymakers when compared