Generation three and a half peacekeeping

Understanding the evolutionary character of African-led Peace Support Operations

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ID12337697
AuthorsAndrew E Yaw Tchie (0000-0003-4549-6823, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume32
Issue4
Pages421-439
Publication date2023-08-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Security Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1024-6029 • E-ISSN: 2154-0128
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10246029.2023.2237482
OpenAlexW4385739518
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited39

African-led Peace Support Operations (PSOs) were established to support the African peace and security architecture by developing integrated capacities for deployment in crises. However, since the deployment of the first African-led PSOs, there has also been the emergence of new types of African-led PSOs, such as the African Union Mission in Somalia; the Lake Chad Basin Commission Multinational Joint Task Force; the Joint Force for the Group of Five for the Sahel; the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique; and the East African Community Force in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The paper examines why African-led PSOs have emerged, arguing that these operations have allowed for increased African agency and shaped the African peace and security space. The paper finds that African-led PSO reflects a more regional and local-specific response in a declining era of new United Nations peacekeeping operations but has also resulted in an overreliance on force to solve the continent’s peace and security issues. Consequently, the paper arrives at a novel conceptualisation of African-led PSOs, positing that they represent generation three and a half of peacekeeping which focus on the effectiveness of force and the morality of using force to deal with insecurity and multifaceted crisis

Agency (philosophy · Commission · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Multinational corporation · Peacekeeping · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Software deployment · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration

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