By OPCS
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has said the African must confront hard truths about the current global landscape and its implications for continent’s security architecture.
Mudavadi who opened the Mashariki Cooperation Conference in Diani, said multilateralism was under strain as unilateralism resurges and intensifies.
“The fundamental principles of diplomacy are being eroded, with militarism re-emerging as a common instrument of foreign policy,” said Mudavadi.
In such a world, PCS and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs said clarity of national interests was often blurred, highlighting the need for advanced intelligence-led geoeconomics and geopolitical decision-making.
“We must begin to strategically prepare for the world beyond the current global order,” said Mudavadi.
PCS said It was now apparent that no single nation can fully address these challenges in isolation.
“Therefore, as leaders and practitioners, we are called upon to respond to challenges of our times by strengthening coordination across borders, institutions, and partnerships,” he said.
PCS said Teamwork was the hallmark of success, and collaboration across borders will make the continent stable and strong to confront the emerging security challenges.
“This is the foundation of successful intelligence work. This is what will underpin the integrity and confidence in which citizens vest in your service,” said Mudavadi.
“We must anticipate risks, strengthen cooperation, and support the development of resilient institutions.”
He said collaboration among African states remains an important component in addressing shared challenges.
He urged the Mashariki Cooperation Conference to go beyond dialogue by encouraging and actualising intelligence cooperation and policy coordination.
PCS said Africa was witnessing a convergence of complex and evolving challenges, including high-intensity conflicts, emerging technological perils such as misuse of Artificial Intelligence.
He also identified the resurgence of unconstitutional changes of government, environmental degradation, the mutating face of terrorism, demographic shifts and migration, and disruptive geopolitical rivalry over the continent’s immense natural resources as other challenges.
“In addition, I wish to draw the attention of this gathering to two emerging trends for deeper reflection,” he said.
First, Mudavadi said the notion of Privatization of Peace noting that with multilateralism in crisis, transactional approaches to peace and security are emerging.
This, he said was manifesting in incentivised peace, the pursuit of private gain in peace initiatives, and the growing treatment of peace as an economic asset.
“In fact, in some quarters, it is opined that Foreign Policy increasingly treats diplomacy as a transaction and sovereignty as a negotiable property,” he said.
“We are witnessing rearmament instead of post-conflict reconstruction that delivers “peace dividends,” intended for economic development of the citizens.”
Broadly, PCS said, some diplomacy scholars and commentators contend that traditional diplomacy is gradually being supplanted by deal-making, effectively turning peace into a private enterprise.
Second Mudavadi said was the privatisation of security.
“There is a growing trend towards outsourcing of security interventions as demonstrated by the proliferation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) as well as mercenaries on the continent,” PCS said.
“In this regard, the question that arises is: how should intelligence experts respond to these developments and the emerging context?”
Mudavadi said ultimately, Africa’s comprehensive security must be collective, proactive and preventive, and deeply intertwined with justice and human dignity.
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