The increase in unconstitutional changes of government and coups in Africa underscores the need to better understand the underlying socio-economic structural drivers of this trend and pathways for redressing them. Join the Wilson Center Africa Program and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for a public event that will explore effective prevention strategies against unconstitutional changes of government in Africa. 

The event will examine how to center development in important long-term measures like security sector reform and tailored regional and international responses like sanctions and suspensions from regional bodies.  The discussions will also highlight findings from a UNDP research paper, Soldiers and Citizens: Military Coups and the Need for Democratic Renewal, which finds that persistent insecurity, stagnant growth, and exclusionary economic governance—as well as low development indicators—are associated with higher coup risk.