Author: Mack L. GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The Organization of African Unity and Peacekeeping
Author: Mack L. GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
African peace
Author: Kathryn NashPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526152800
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
African regional organizations have played leading roles in constructing collective conflict management rules for the continent, but these rules or norms have not been static. Currently, the African Union (AU) deploys monitors, authorizes peace support operations, and actively engages to resolve internal conflicts. Just a few decades ago, these actions would have been deeply controversial under the Organization of African Unity (OAU). What changed to allow for this transformation in the way the African regional organization approaches peace and security? African peace examines why the OAU chose norms in 1963 that prioritized state security and led to a policy of strict non-interference - even in the face of destabilizing violence - and why the AU chose very different norms leading to a disparate conflict management policy in the early 2000s. Even if the AU’s capacity to respond to conflict is still developing, this new policy has made the region more willing and capable of responding to violence. Nash argues that norm creation largely happened within the African context, and international pressure was not a determinant factor in their evolution. The role of regions in the international order, particularly the African region, has been under-theorized and under-acknowledged, and this book adds to an emerging literature that explores the role of regional organizations in the Global South in creating and promoting norms based on their own experiences and for their own purposes.
The Organization of African Unity and Peacekeeping : Mack L Gibson
Author: Need for Organization of African Unity to Develop a Peacekeeping Capability
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
The maintenance of peace in the world has become the central problem and preoccupation of nation states, international organizations, and regional bodies. In an increasing interdependent world, the search for peace has quite understandably and inevitably become a collective exercise. Since the end of WWII, global efforts aimed at maintenance of peace have been carried out through the United Nations. But as crisis areas increased all over the world, regional groups such as the Organization of African Unity (OAU) were required to assume new role of peacekeeping within their area. The need for peacekeeping operations in Africa has increased significantly in recent years as a result of an increase in intrastate and interstate conflicts. The types of situations that have called for peacekeeping operations include border clashes, civil wars, and ethnic conflicts. The purpose of this study is to determine what type of military peacekeeping force can and must be developed within the framework of the OAU. The structure must be feasible and should assist in preserving and strengthening the organization, enhance the existing system of peacekeeping; and promote the evolutionary advance towards a continent of peace and stability.
The Organization of African Unity and Peacekeeping
Author: Mack L Gibson (Jr)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This paper evaluates the capabilities of the Organization of African Unity to function as a regional peacekeeping force and seeks to determine whether such a force is considered to be in the best interests of the United States. The analysis was performed following a detailed study of literature; visits to the Canadian Ministry of Defense, the United Nations, the International Peace Academy, the US State Department, OAU Headquarters in Ethiopia and New York City, and seven African nations; and attendance at Canadian Peacekeeping Courses. The capability of the OAU to field such a force was examined from a military, political and economic standpoint.
Peacekeeping and the Organization of African Unity
Author: Eric G. BermanAfrica's First Peacekeeping Operation
Author: Terry M. MaysPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313012415
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In 1981 the Organization of African Unity (OAU) mandated and fielded the first regional peacekeeping operation since the Arab League's mission in Kuwait 20 years earlier. Battalion-sized contingents from Nigeria, Senegal, and Zaire were joined by smaller observer contingents from other OAU members in an effort to provide a buffer zone between the two main factions in the Chadian civil war. Mays opens his analysis by providing an overview of the concept of peacekeeping. Several definitions are offered to help distinguish between the various types of peace operations. After examining the concept hegemon, he looks at the ways regional and subregional hegemons utilize peacekeeping operations as foreign policy tools as they protect their interests. Mays argues that Nigeria, as a West African hegemon, served as the moving force behind the mandating and fielding of the OAU peacekeeping mission in Chad. Rather than being purely humanitarian in nature, Nigeria's motivation included the removal of French and later Libyan soldiers from a weak state on its border. However, Nigeria could not perform the task alone. France and the United States were instrumental as well in the mandating and fielding process. French and American interests stemmed from concern over Libyan motives in Chad. Nigeria kept the effort to mandate the peacekeeping operation alive for two years; France proved to be the stimulus behind persuading the Chadian government to accept the deployment of OAU peacekeepers and prompting the Senegalese to contribute a battalion to the mission; the United States contributed by keeping France and Nigeria focused on a peacekeeping solution and helping persuade Zaire to join the mission. Mays offers the first comprehensive examination of the OAU peacekeeping mission and reviews the political and military organization of the force as well as its deployment, redeployment plans, logistics, and operations between the Chadian factions. Utilizing an extensive collection of resources, including interviews with participants, diplomats, and government documents, he provdies a detailed examination of every meeting/conference between 1979 and 1981 that discussed a peacekeeping option for Chad. Factors of success in traditional peacekeeping operations are applied to the OAU mission, and he concludes by reviewing the impact of the 1981-1982 OAU operation on current African peacekeeping trends. An invaluable analysis for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with peacekeeping, international relations, and African studies.
The Organization of African Unity and Peacekeeping: The Pan-African Defense Force
Author: James S. OjokojoPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This study looks into the major causes of conflicts in Africa and the efforts of the OAU in settling both interstate and intrastate conflicts. It attempts to determine if the Pan-African Defense Force (PADF) proposed by the OAU is capable of performing enforcement and peacekeeping missions because of the different political ideologies and the differences among the armies in Africa. The study reveals that any type of PADF created now is not capable of conducting an enforcement mission because of the different political ideologies and the logistics requirements to sustain the PADF. However, the PADF can conduct limited peacekeeping missions. The study proposes the creation of a Pan- African Defense College (PADC) which will solve some of the major problems.
Need for Organization of African Unity to Develop a Peacekeeping Capability
Author: Carl A. DadaAfrican Peacekeeping
Author: Jonathan FisherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.