The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which integrates 54 member states into a single continental-wide market to replace trade barriers and raw-material exports with integrated continental industrialization.

The Strategic Sectoral Specialization (SSS) is a model where the AfCFTA grants member states Exclusive Continental Mandates (ECM’s) to develop specific industries. Under the SSS, the AfCFTA centralizes support for a specific industry within the member state. Other member states agree to forgo development of that industry, instead specializing as suppliers to the ECM’s.

Joyful militancy' is a social movement approach that prioritizes how activists treat and support each other, placing 'healthy movement culture' as a core priority within movements. Joyful militancy tends to welcome disagreement and difference within movements rather than enforcing ideological conformity.

In practice, this tends to favour building strong communities and long-term relationships among activists, rather than focusing primarily on urgent timelines, political lobbying, or high-profile protests.

Armenia's parliament has voted in approval to initiate the formal European Union accession process, which involves implementing judicial, administrative, and economic reforms. Armenia has been close with Russia historically; this represents a significant shift. 

For the purposes of this debate, predictive AI refers to systems that use machine learning models and big data analytics to forecast where and when crimes are likely to occur or who might commit them. For instance law enforcement use them to identify faces in public places, predict where crime will happen and send patrols there, and score how likely a person is to offend, which informs decisions on stops, charging and bail. 

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical type of computer software that can match or beat human thinking on any task. Unlike current narrow tools that only do one job, AGI can learn new skills, use common sense, and solve brand-new problems without extra programming.

Weltschmerz: (German for "world-pain") is a profound, world-weary melancholy or sadness. It arises from the acute awareness that the reality of the world will never satisfy the idealized expectations of the mind.