Towards an African Peace and Security Regime
Towards an African Peace and Security Regime

Author: João Gomes Porto

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 131700907X

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Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental embeddedness, transnational linkages, strategic relevance provides an informed and critical reflection on the adequacy of the emerging African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) to the medium- and long-term challenges and opportunities of conflict prevention, management and resolution in Africa. Complementary to the editors’ Africa’s New Peace and Security Architecture: Implementing norms, institutionalising solutions (Ashgate 2010), this volume revolves around three main areas of focus: the continental ’embeddedness’ of norms, values and processes required for the gradual coming into shape of the African peace and security regime; its transnational linkages as well as the wider collective security environment; and the empirical analysis of the connections between the continental level and the regional economic communities with case-studies on ECOWAS, SADC and COMESA.

Peace in Africa
Peace in Africa

Author: Shannon L. Field

Publisher: Spotlight Poets

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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The future of Africa will, in large measure, be determined by its ability to manage a range of difficult security challenges.

The African Union's Emerging Peace and Security Regime
The African Union's Emerging Peace and Security Regime

Author: Kristiana Powell

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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The notion of the "responsibility to protect" has made some progress in recent years, particularly in Africa. For example, the African Union's (AU) new peace and security agenda resonates with the prevention-reaction-rebuilding continuum outlined in the ICISS [International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty] report. This monograph draws on case studies of the AU and other international engagements in Burundi and Darfur, Sudan, to explore the opportunities and challenges operationalising the responsibility to protect in Africa.

Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture

Author: J. Gomes Porto

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1317183991

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This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). In creating this architecture, the African Union and the RECs tread new ground with potentially significant consequences to the lives and livelihoods of millions of Africans who are affected by war and armed conflict. In-depth, critical chapters inform, clarify and provide key points for reflection on the architecture as a whole as well as on each of the structures currently under implementation. The volume examines the institutions that will carry the mandate forward, raises pertinent research questions for the successful operationalization of the architecture and debates the medium and long-term challenges to implementation. Students and researchers of African approaches to peace building, conflict resolution and regional security will benefit from the deep and critical engagement of issues covered in this volume by world renowned scholars and practitioners.

Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa
Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa

Author: Malte Brosig

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1317610342

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This book examines peacekeeping in Africa, exploring how the various actors are forming an African security regime complex. The changing dynamics of peacekeeping in today’s world have encouraged a more cooperative approach between international and regional actors. At the centre of this book is the analysis of how an African security regime complex could emerge in the area of cooperative peacekeeping. The African regime complex on peacekeeping includes a number of organizations at the regional and sub-regional African level, as well as global institutions such as the UN, interregional partners like the EU and individual lead nations. This book is the first in providing a systematic overview of peacekeeping doctrines, capacities and deployments of these key actors and single lead states. Theoretically, the book links up with regime complexity scholarship but connects it with dependency theory. Here inter-institutional relations are conceptualised as acts of resource exchange. The book explores how primarily international organizations are partnering by exchanging resources. Empirically, the study analyses the phenomenon of regime complexity in three prominent African crises covering Eastern Africa (Somalia), Central African (Central African Republic) and Western Africa (Mali). This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, international organisations, African politics, security studies and IR in general.

The African Union's Role in Peacekeeping
The African Union's Role in Peacekeeping

Author: Isiaka Badmus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1137426616

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This study examines the African Union's peacekeeping role in managing African conflicts. Based on a qualitative research methodology, it analyses AU peace operations in Burundi and Somalia, and hybrid peacekeeping in Darfur, in order to identify the lessons learned and suggest how future outcomes may be improved.

African Peace & Security Architecture
African Peace & Security Architecture

Author: Fahmi Ahmed

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9783847327295

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One of the fundamental changes that have come about with the transformation of the OAU into the AU is the establishment of a comprehensive peace and Security regime. The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) is institutionalized within the framework of the AU Constitutive Act and the Protocol on the Peace and Security Council (PSC). APSA is a key mechanism for implementing the vision, objectives and principles of the AU. The AU has a vision of peace, integration and prosperity and APSA stands to benefit positively this pan-African vision through preventing and resolving conflicts in Africa effectively. Against this background, the book seeks to describe and analyze the importance and place of the APSA towards the Union Government of Africa and the challenges facing it as one of the most important mechanisms for the AU strategic response to conflicts and as a base ground for the Union Government of Africa.

THE AFRICAN UNION'S EMERGING THE AFRICAN UNION'S EMERGING - PEACE AND SECURITY REGIMEPEACE AND SECURITY REGIME
THE AFRICAN UNION'S EMERGING THE AFRICAN UNION'S EMERGING - PEACE AND SECURITY REGIMEPEACE AND SECURITY REGIME

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(See Annex 1 for a description of the CEWS, the Panel of the Wise and the Peace Fund.) The AU's normative commitments to a protection agenda The norms underpinning the AU's emerging peace and security regime resonate closely with elements of the protection framework found in The Responsibility to Protect. [...] The PSC Protocol reinforces this relationship by emphasising the importance of harmonisation, coordination and cooperation between the AU and the regional mechanisms, and ensuring effective partnerships between the regional mechanisms and the PSC.43 The prominent role the AU has assigned to the RECs will allow the AU to build on their comparative advantage, experience and established frameworks an. [...] An investigation of the AU's response to the crisis serves to highlight some of the opportunities and challenges facing the AU and the rest of the international community in delivering on pan-African peace and security objectives, including the protection of civilians. [...] Critically, the PSC explicitly stated that "protection of the civilian population" would be a primary objective of this invigorated mission, along with the disarmament and the neutralisation of the Janjaweed and the facilitation of the delivery of the humanitarian assistance.113 In October 2004, the PSC released another communiqué, expounding the revised mandate of the expanded AU deployment. [...] On the one hand, key African leaders and the AU Commission were eager to "do something" about the egregious human rights violations taking place in Sudan and to demonstrate the organization's willingness and capacity to respond meaningfully to crises situations on the continent.116 On the other hand, the AU was one of the few actors in the position to take action.

Reimagining Security Communities
Reimagining Security Communities

Author: Francis Onditi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-24

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 3030708691

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This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community (“RSC”) arrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional “RSC” into a simplified tool kit of “resources”, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.