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Peacekeeping in Africa - Politics, Security and the Failure of Foreign Military Assistance (Hardcover)
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Peacekeeping in Africa - Politics, Security and the Failure of Foreign Military Assistance (Hardcover)
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In recent decades, African states have developed an impressive
infrastructure for training their peacekeepers. In addition,
peacekeeping, peacebuilding and associated areas of conflict
resolution have become significant areas of employment. Marco
Jowell has spent a decade working in peacekeeping training in East
Africa - initially as one of the foreign 'Technical Advisers' at
the Peace Support Operations (PSO) training centre in Kenya, the
International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) and
subsequently as a strategic adviser to the Rwanda Peace Academy.
Using first-hand experience, he considers how military forces from
a variety of African states - with great differences in history,
language and political systems and with militaries with different
cultures and capabilities - can conduct complicated multinational
peacekeeping operations. He shows how regional peacekeeping
training centres provide an environment for African elites,
predominately military, to interact with each other through shared
training and experiences. This process of interaction, or
socialisation, improves skills but also encourages cohesion so that
future African-led missions will be managed by well-trained
officers who are comfortable and willing to work within a regional
or Pan-African framework. Jowell shows that part of the aim of
peacekeeping training centres is to foster a Pan-African 'outward'
looking ideology or disposition as well as improving technical
ability. This book will be essential reading for all involved with
African military and security studies and analysts of peacekeeping
training and operations.
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