TOPIC A
Corruption in West Africa
Africa is a land plagued by conflict, corruption, and political instability, and has been constantly affected by bloody regime changes and rebellions. Today, many African governments suffer from incredible corruption and are unable to take care of their own economies, let alone their own people. These governments impose repressive policies that escalate these conflicts and hinder any possible improvements. West Africa is a region that has been particularly affected by corruption and constant civil war.
Corruption hinders the development of a nation’s economy and prevents many goods and services from reaching the people who need them most. To create a more stable political and economic structure, the AU must devote time to the restoration of infrastructure and the raising of incomes in the ravaged economies of African nations. These improvements depend on the implementation of reliable macro- and microeconomic policies which include the encouragement of foreign investment and generous support from donor countries. Perhaps the AU can invest money and engage in nation-building programs which could at least serve as a starting point for economic and political development.
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TOPIC B
Responses to Genocide
The discovery of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of the Second World
War may have aroused shock and horror throughout the world and raised the
popular cry, Never again! But other voices were less certain that this
particular lesson of history had really been learned. As the recent
crisis in Darfur demonstrates, the nature and complexity of genocide and
armed conflict has altered significantly since the end of the Cold War.
There has been an explosion in the incidence of intra-State conflict. Since the beginning of the worst hostilities in February
2003, out of a population of 7 million people, over 1.5 million are
internally displaced, over 140,000 have been forced into exile, and up to
100,000 civilian have been killed. The situation in Darfur
presents the nascent African Union with its biggest adversity yet. There is without a doubt the need for something more than
military intervention when dealing with genocide and Darfur. The AU cannot
allocate the military as its default option. This committee should consider
in what circumstances the AU is to use military intervention as well as
propose other non- violent long term solutions to prevent future genocide in
Africa.
and the Situation in Darfur
