22 March 2011: New strategy needed to unite Northern Ghana after years of tribal conflict
The report, entitled “Governance and Security in Ghana: The Dagbon Chieftaincy Crisis”, offers a thorough background to the crisis and provides recommendations to support peace in Northern Ghana.
Ten years after the murder of Ya Na Yakubu Adani II, the king of Ghana’s northern Dagomba kingdom, Ghana still lacks a systematic strategy to resolve this more than 200-year long conflict.
The report stresses an urgent need for the Ghanaian Government to depoliticize the crisis and to develop a comprehensive program of a political and economical integration of Northern Ghana. It also urges the cooperation and involvement of civil society organizations to set up a broadly inclusive peace plan that promotes tolerance, equality, justice and security for all.
This report is the second country report of the “Africa Security and Governance” project, led by SIPRI and supported by OSI (the Open Society Institute). It will be launched today at the Alisa Hotel, North Ridge, Accra. Read more about SIPRI’s Africa project here. Contact Charles Kojo Vandyck cvandyck@wacsi.org at WACSI for further information.
WEST AFRICA CIVIL SOCIETY INSTITUTE
WACSI is a special intaitive of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It seeks to strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of CSOs to engage in policy formulation, implementation, and the promotion of democratic values and principles in West Africa. Read more about WACSI here: http://www.wacsi.org. Contact: Charles Kojo Vandyck - Email: cvandyck@wacsi.org
