Spotlight
- The Nation Magazine Honors TransAfrica Forum as Most Valuable Advocacy Group for 2008
The Nation magazine writes "TransAfrica has taken bold positions on complex and often difficult issues--Zimbabwe, Haiti, the militarization of east Africa, the proposed U.S.-Columbia Free Trade Agreement--and created space for open and honest debate about U.S. foreign policy. As the Obama administration seeks to reengage with the world, no perspective is going to be more useful than that of TransAfrica."
Current Issues
- Crisis in Zimbabwe Continues to Mount
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has released a communiqué declaring that:
Zimbabwe is now a “complex emergency”, a failed state, without a functioning government and with the destruction of the economy, the infrastructure, and social capital. This requires an immediate political solution and we call on the international community, and in particular the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU), to act in defense of the ordinary citizens of Zimbabwe.
- Inclusive Security: New Approaches for U.S. National Security Policy
TransAfrica Forum, with the assistance of the TransAfrica Forum Scholars Council, has launched “The Human Security Project.” The project aims to foster debate on a new inclusive framework for U.S. security policy and its implications for Africa and the African Diaspora, compatible with the emerging scholarly and international consensus on human security. It is urgent not only to replace the disastrous policies of the last eight years, but also to shape a new policy direction that prioritizes inclusive human security, multilateral approaches, and interdependence with other nations rather than focusing narrowly on bilateral and militaristic responses to perceived threats.