By: Gloria Anderson
A Research Paper authored by two Researchers at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, KAIPTC, has won the International Affairs Centenary Prize.
The article, titled “African Experiences and Alternativity in International Relations Theorizing about Security”, was written by the Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Prof. Kwesi Aning, and a Research Fellow and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Dr Kwaku Danso.
They emerged joint winners with Valérie Rosoux’s Article on ‘How not to mediate conflict’.
The paper was published in the International Affairs Journal’s January 2022 edition as part of its 100-year anniversary. International Affairs is one of the world’s leading journals of International Relations, publishing academically rigorous and policy relevant research on International Relations in the last century.
The paper was one of six research papers shortlisted for the Centenary Prize. After a rigorous selection process, the jointly authored paper by KAIPTC’s Researchers emerged tops.
Reacting to this prestigious win, Prof. Aning said it is a recognition and celebration of originality and excellence.
Dr Danso, on the other hand, described this achievement as humbling and inspiring, saying it represents a recognition of KAIPTC’s sustained commitment to contribute to scholarly and policy discourses on African and global peace and security.
In the paper, Prof. Aning and Dr Danso reflect on ways in which International Relations and security studies have been responsible, in part, for the production of a racialized mode of security knowledge generation that puzzles security policies and experiences of people in Africa.
