Dr Kwesi Aning (second from right) with the course participants.
Military officers, researchers, national security experts and their European counterparts from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are meeting in Accra to discuss and identify various levels of crises and develop plans to contain them.
It comes in the wake of rise in terrorism, violent extremism and political vigilantism that has created severe security threats in the West Africa sub-region.
The four-day NATO “operation assessment workshop” is being organised by the Kofi Annan Peace Keeping Training Centre (KAIPTIC) in collaboration with NATO.
Dr Kwesi Aning, Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at KAIPTC, said the training was relevant as the country was situated in a ‘neighbourhood’ that was engrossed by many security challenges which, he noted, had implications on the country’s internal security.
“The security landscape in West Africa and the Sahel has dramatically changed over the last decade,” he stated.
He said the rise in terrorism, violent extremism, organised crime and political vigilantism had created severe security threats, resulting in deaths, destruction and instability in the region.
Dr Aning said there was the need to secure a more resilient country and continent, stressing that it would come to nothing if “we fail to strike the right acquaintances, forge mutual partnerships and share experiences to help us respond effectively to external and internal security threats.”
On the rise in political vigilantism in the country, he said the perpetrators had been given too much power, stressing that the canker must be addressed abruptly.
Brigadier Ignazio Lax, Director of Strategic Direction at the South-Hub of NATO, said the training would enhance the good governance, accountability, transparency and respect of rule of law in the country.
He said, “the workshop would promote bonds between NATO, the Hub and the centre.”
BY ALLIA NOSHIE
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