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This chapter offers a critical examination of UN peacekeeping operations in Africa. It provides a historical and contemporary narrative of UN peacekeeping operations in Africa, paying particular attention to the factors that impact the effectiveness and prospects for successful peacekeeping in Africa. An appraisal on the Libyan crisis in 2011 which put to test the UN’s emerging norm of the international community’s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) civilians from mass atrocities is examined to illustrate the complexities within which peace operations in Africa are expected to respond. The relationship between Africa and the UN system, as well as the capacity constraints facing African peacocking efforts, during and after the Cold War, is highlighted.
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Akonor, K. (2017). UN Peace Operations in Africa: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. In: UN Peacekeeping in Africa. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39162-5_2
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