Challenges to the peace-promoting objectives of KAZA TFCA ! A case study of the Zambezi Region, Namibia

KAZA is the fourth TFCA in southern Africa to be signed into treaty by its host states. Like earlier TFCAs, this is accompanied and supported by a peace-promoting discourse that has been employed by a variety of actors in the political, economic and nature conservation domains. In this narrative, international boundaries are reconceptualised as theatres of opportunity for peacemaking, rather than physical barriers and potential sources of dispute between nation states. Peacemaking objectives are reflected in the Memorandum of Understanding between the five KAZA member states, which speaks of fostering transnational collaboration and cooperation. This fits well with the aims of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its guiding principles of solidarity, peace and security.

A research paper looking at how the KAZA TFCA promotes the peace making objectives of SADC.

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• Leineke de Visser research paper