In this wide-ranging book on UN peacekeeping missions in Africa, Dr. Adekeye Adebajo examines fifteen different operations on the continent spanning five-and-a-half decades. It is the first comprehensive historical and analytical review of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa.
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The authors provide a context for understanding the region’s security dilemmas, highlighting the link between failures of economic development, governance, and democratization on the one hand, and military insecurity and violent conflicts on the other.
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Offering the most in-depth account available of one of the most baffling and intractable of Africa’s conflicts, the book unravels the tangled web of the war by addressing four questions: Why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war? To what extent was ECOMOG’s intervention shaped by Nigeria’s hegemonic aspirations? What […]
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This special volume of International Peacekeeping, was largely written by a diverse group of younger scholars.The work examines the conflicts of the 1990s and suggests new approaches and tools for conflict management in the new millennium. The topics covered by this special issue include the paradoxical similarities between war and peace, the role of natural […]
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This study tackles contemporary issues that are of utmost significance to building peace in West Africa.For more information about this book, click here.
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While the future of peace operations will be intrinsically linked to Africa’s future, this does not mean that the UN will lose its central…
Responding to extremist violence and displacement-related issues will depend on decisiveness and more significant coordination.
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