"Responsibility for security in Africa is devolving to African states and regional organisations. For better or worse, the AU reflects the realities of the international system: a society of independent states among which power is very unevenly distributed and rarely exercised with ethical consistency. If the AU aspires to become a leading organisation for maintaining peace and security on the continent, it must seize the opportunity to implement the provisions of the Constitutive Act." (Quoted from paper)