Africa Center for Strategic Studies

The Africa Center for Strategic Studies supports democratic governance in Africa by offering senior African civilian and military leaders a rigorous academic and practical program in civil-military relations, national security strategy, and defense economics. The End-of-Seminar Academic Summary is intended to provide each Leadership Seminar participant, prior to their departure from the Leadership Seminar, a summary of the salient topics and issues discussed at the Seminar. This is done so that they can immediately and effectively share the information with their supervisors, colleagues, and all interested parties, upon their return home. The purpose of the Leadership Seminar is to afford participants an opportunity to consider and evaluate alternative approaches to the pressing challenges of democratic defense. The Seminar explored potential solutions to the challenges of reconciling the often-competing priorities of security and liberty in developing democracies.