Uniting Africa
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African conflict resolution
African Unity Project
Author_David J. Francis
Building Regional Peace
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civil war analysis Africa
Civil War Peace Settlement
Cold War Proxy War
Complex Political Emergency
Conflict Management Interventions
DRC War
ECOMOG Peacekeeping
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humanitarian intervention studies
Nation Building
OAU Charter
OAU Summit
peace
Peace Support Operations
peacekeeping operations Africa
post-Cold War Africa
preventive diplomacy strategies
Regional Economic Communities
regional integration Africa
Regional Peace
Regional Peacekeeping
Regional Political Unions
Regional Security Complex
regional security cooperation case studies
SADC
SADC Intervention
SADC Organ
Somalia Peace Process
Sub-regional Hegemon
Sudan Peace Process
Western Sahara
Product details
- ISBN 9780754646891
- Weight: 550g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Plagued by bloody wars and armed conflicts, political instability, communal violence and displaced persons, and at the mercy of natural catastrophes such as drought and famine, it is not surprising that the Western press has long dismissed Africa as the 'hopeless continent'. In the face of these challenges, Africa today is faced with a stark choice: either unite or perish. The debate on why and how the continent should unite in terms of co-operative peace, security and development is more urgent than at any other time in Africa's post-colonial history. Moving forward from the failure of the earlier, typically idealistic Africa unity project, David Francis demonstrates how peace and security challenges have created the imperative for change. He argues that a series of regional peace and security systems are emerging, and that states that have participated in practical experiments in regional peacekeeping, peace support operations, conflict stabilization/management and preventive diplomacy are building de facto systems of peace and security that could be institutionalized and extended.
David J. Francis is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK.
