ABSTRACT
No doubt, questions of peace and security are extremely relevant and at the heart of public debates in many countries. Today’s concern about the situations in the Middle East, the Sahelo-Saharan region, the Korean peninsula, or the former Soviet territories, as well as terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere are cases in point. In the more than 25 years since, peace and security challenges have been redefined beyond traditional topics such as weapons of mass destruction. Some actors, for example jihadists, have been reappraised in the context on the ‘war of terror’. This chapter started with some observations on the dynamic field of peace and security, both as a practice and as an academic field. Two main issues were at the forefront of the discussion: first, transregional peace and security interventions and deployments by international organizations and, second, African interregional practices that seem to develop into truly transregional peace and security practices.
