Civic Education

Conflicts can be defined as a form of disagreement or antagonism between two or more parts, which may be individuals, societies, communities or nations.

This article will provide you with a somewhat generalised overview of how the conflicts in Africa are seen by those outside. It will focus mainly on the Western perspective, given the fact that it is the Western world that is most in a position to do something about the conflict in Africa. A more detailed

what measures against conflicts can different actors actually take in foreign nations, and often quite distant conflict zones?

Agenda-setting refers to the process by which certain influential groups in society decide which issues are important to them and that they feel need to be dealt with.

At the level of international organisations, we can focus on the decision in conflicts resolution within the UN Security Council and also on the agencies involved in providing humanitarian aid.

The media is an actor in conflicts resolution that ‘speaks’ rather than ‘acts’. Its primary role in conflicts resolution is to discover and report on conflicts

Coverage of African conflicts appeared to end there, with very low levels of coverage of conflicts in the DRC, Angola, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia-Eritrea.

Do such interest groups response exist for Africa in Western countries, and if they do, how responsive are they concerning conflict on the continent?

In many ways, it can be said that the Corporations Response to the conflicts in Africa has been much significant. This is not necessarily, however, a positive statement.

The decision-making (or perhaps more appropriately: awareness-making) process of the public is quite varied, given the many types of actors within what we refer to as the public.

Once a conflict is ‘chosen’ as being important and requiring attention and resources, other actors jump on in a sort of ‘bandwagon’ effect, so that soon all of the actors of conflicts are talking about it.