Civic Education

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.

In this article, we will see that, on the whole, conflict in Africa has marginalised by outside policymakers when compared

We have seen in the previous articles that, like policymakers outside the continent, the role of media in reporting conflicts

The agendas and priorities of the academia in their response to conflict can be seen through the development and application of theory, through academic materials such as journals and books,