Entering the African free trade zone requires nations to relinquish an important part of their sovereignty at a time when widespread violence is posing unprecedented challenges to state sovereignty.
and low per capita income create conditions ripe for the use of violence for economic and political gains.Since the beginning of the 2000s terrorism has fed on internal conflicts within states and underlying frustrations linked to the absence of identity recognition for some groups and a lack of redistribution of national wealth. For many nations, the intensification of terrorist activity precludes the opportunities potentially offered by the African free trade zone.
In a continent rife with competing priorities, the security of people and goods can no longer wait. Integration into the free trade zone mustBut is the free trade zone really the best way to achieve all this?While we await impact studies in the African free trade zone, we can look to integration on other continents. The European Union, the and the Association of South East Asian Nations have all had a pacifying effect on relations between nation states.
But although they pose challenges to the free trade zone, security problems could be solved by the zone itself. In the face of external interventionist security and developmental approaches, the zone could be seen as a new paradigm for promoting peace in Africa for several reasons.
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