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“We are determined to deal once and for all with the scourge of conflicts and violence on
our Continent, acknowledging our shortcomings and errors, committing our resources
and our best people, and missing no opportunity to push forward the agenda of conflict
prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction. We, as
leaders, simply cannot bequeath the burden of conflicts to the next generation of
Africans.” (Paragraph 9 of the Tripoli Declaration of 31 August 2009).