The High Authority for Peacebuilding (HACP) in Niger 2011-2023. Placing the State at the heart of conflict prevention and management.

Like other Sahelian countries, Niger has been affected by terrorism for almost two decades now. This issue has highlighted both the limits of these countries’ security systems and, more profoundly, their inability to offer stability to the populations of certain parts of the country. In a way, these “jihadized insurgencies” are a continuity of groups that regularly take up arms against central states.

Far from remaining inert and/or offering a single military response to all these insurgencies, Niger’s authorities have for decades been demonstrating institutional innovation in response to these challenges. This innovation includes the Haute Autorité à la consolidation de la paix (HACP), which is rooted in older institutions created after the rebellions. The HACP, within the broader framework of counter-terrorism policy, has become a key player in Niger’s peace issues, whether in terms of prevention, crisis management or stabilization. This text describes its origins, the way it fits into Niger’s institutional landscape, its relative autonomy and its scope of action.
The text examines the duplicability of the HACP elsewhere in the region, as well as its durability following the military coup of 2023, due to the departure of General Abou Tarka. General Abou Tarka embodied the structure in his dealings with institutions and donors alike and was one of the architects of Niger’s antiterrorism policy.
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