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This book offers a detailed examination of the effectiveness of the
peacekeeping operations of the African Union. Despite its growing
reputation in peacekeeping and its status as the oldest continental
peacekeeper, the performance of the African Union (AU) has hitherto
not been assessed. This book fills that gap and analyses six case
studies: Burundi, Comoros, Somalia, Mali, Darfur and the Central
African Republic. From a methodological perspective it takes a
problem-solving approach and utilises process tracing in its
analysis, with its standard for success resting on achieving
negative peace (the cessation of violence and provision of
security). Theoretically, this study offers a comprehensive list of
factors drawn from peace literature and field experience which
influence the outcome of peacekeeping. Beyond the major issues,
such as funding, international collaboration and mandate, this work
also examines the impact of largely ignored factors such as force
integrity and territory size. The book modifies the claim of peace
literature on what matters for success and advocates the
indispensability of domestic elite cooperation, local initiative
and international political will. It recognises the necessity of
factors such as lead state and force integrity for certain peace
operations. In bringing these factors together, this study expands
the peacekeeping debate on what matters for stability in conflict
areas. This book will be of much interest to students of
peacekeeping, African politics, war and conflict studies, and
International Relations in general.
Much has been written on security in Africa—its democratic
deficit, poor civil-military relations, and myriad conflicts—but
these are often treated in isolation from one another. This book
takes a different approach, as it links all of these issues to the
dynamics of the Anthropocene. Penned by African scholars on the
continent and in the diaspora, it examines the different challenges
not as separate entities but as outcomes of the Anthropocene Age.
In this geological epoch, humans have become a global
force—unfortunately, not necessarily for good. The interaction
between humans and the climate, the effects of waste, the impact of
pollution on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, the loss of
biodiversity, and the change in the chemical composition of the
soil, oceans and atmosphere are key identifiers of the age of the
Anthropocene. This has fueled conflict and instability from the
vast swathes of the Sahel to Somalia. Responding to these issues of
insecurity without understanding their inter-connectedness and how
this relates to the environment can only result in failure. From
this perspective, the current structures in place are inadequate
for the task of confronting insecurity at the state and continental
levels, as represented by the African Union. What is needed is a
radical reevaluation of Africa’s security architecture and
approach to security. This necessitates pooling sovereignty on a
continental and global level. It necessitates less state-centric
responses that include civil society and the business community as
equal partners of states in order to collectively confront
insecurity in the age of the Anthropocene. • The authors
are academics, policy makers and military veterans who have
worked in building capacity on the African continent• The book is
comprehensive in scope, strong on theory, pragmatic in policy and
reflects experience from the field.• The authors approach makes
the book easy, interesting and intriguing.
Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on
Changing Wave of Law Enforcement provides critical insights into
the trends and patterns of crime and insurgency in contemporary
African society. In Africa criminals and insurgents are becoming
more resourceful, smart, and connected, as criminal syndicates are
increasingly deploying modern technologies to commit crimes in ways
and manners that are profoundly daring, and on a transnational and
global scale. Meanwhile, the capacity of local, state, and security
forces to stem the tide of crimes and insurgencies is decimated by
dwindling resources on the part of the state due to official
corruption, down-sizing of public institutions and a fierce
competition for resources between security and other developmental
agencies. In this volume, the contributors, who are expert
academics in policing and security in Africa as well as security
practitioners, provide detailed explanations of the new wave of
crime, characterized by cyber insecurity, terror financing, the
proliferation of small arms and light weapons, and transnational
networking among criminal syndicates. The volume forensically
explores how these complex waves and emerging trends of criminality
and insurgency impact on the socio-economic and political
development of Africa. Editors, Usman A. Tar and Dawud Muhammad
Dawud highlight how these factors affect and shape policing and law
enforcement in an era of "smart crimes" and insurgency within the
continent.
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