Regional Peace through Collaborative Engineering driven by the African Union Aspiration 2063

摘要

The African Union Agenda 2063 is a strategic framework for the socio-economic transformation of Africa over the next 50 years that seek for a peaceful, prosperous and integrated Africa. Africa has largely been successful in solving its political conflicts using African peace keepers; however, Africa has not been able to use her engineers in solving Africa infrastructure challenges and developmental problems. About 32% of active African Higher Education Institutions run engineering programmes but they hardly work together on African infrastructure and developmental issues.As identified in the African Engineering Dean's Council (AEDC) Summit in 2017, Africa must solve Africa problems but there seems not to exist specific policy framework to encourage African engineers' collaboration to solve African infrastructure and developmental problems which promotes regional peace. The little collaboration that exists are divided alone their national languages of English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.This paper brings in the context of the African Union Aspiration 2063 in regional collaborative engineering research that promotes regional peace and recommends proactive agenda for accelerating sustainable development in a systematic and self-reliant manner through collaborative engineering.