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This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute examines how climate change acts as a threat multiplier in Africa, exacerbating food insecurity, resource competition, and displacement, which in turn increase the risk of violent conflict.

The June 2016 Peace & Security Council Report examines the strained relationship between the African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the UN Security Council (UNSC), focusing on coordination failures, funding disputes for peacekeeping, and the AU's struggle to implement preventive diplomacy in member states like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This research paper by Petrus de Kock for the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) examines the historical and contemporary drivers of conflict in Sudan, focusing on the relationship between the central state in Khartoum and its marginalised peripheries. Written in June 2011, the document analyzes how the struggle for both high-level resources (oil) and low-level subsistence resources (land and water) has shaped the country's political landscape, leading to two civil wars and the eventual independence of Southern Sudan in July 2011.

This seminar report, presented by Dr. Victor Ojakorotu on 14 August 2008, examines the historical roots and current drivers of conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta. It analyzes how the shift from regional to federal control of oil revenue, combined with environmental degradation and governance failures, has led to instability and armed rebellion.

This introductory text for Monograph 6, edited by Hussein Solomon, examines the intersection of water scarcity and security, with a specific focus on Southern Africa. It argues that dwindling fresh water resources, coupled with rapid population growth, increase the risk of resource-based conflict, while suggesting that regional cooperation and frameworks like the SADC Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems offer a path toward stability.