‘African Politics, African Peace’ Research

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The Transnational Conflict in Africa dataset inverts the standard trope that the vast majority of African conflicts are internal and not inter-state. It captures how Africa has seen very high levels of external support in ‘civil wars’, as well as many low-intensity violent confrontations between states. Key insights appear in occasional paper, policy memo, and academic journal article.

Special issue of African Security Review, (Volume 26, Issue 2, April/May 2017) with six scholarly papers based on research that supported the Report and written by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot (two), Sarah Detzner, Alex de Waal, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu and Daniel Gebreegziabher Kebede, and Tatiana Carayannis and Mignonne Fowlis.

Special issue of International Peacekeeping (Volume 4, Issue 4, July 2017), with five scholarly papers, written by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot, Solomon Dersso, Bridget Conley, Allard Duursma and Ann Fitz-Gerald

Research Briefings

Expert authors were commissioned to draft papers on cross-cutting themes and in-depth case studies. Below are a list of the research papers, with links to summaries, where available. Summaries of most the papers are available as pdf downloads. The full papers will be published separately in journals and other collections.

	Paper No. 1	THE APSA: NORMS AND STRUCTURES FOR AU’S PEACE MISSIONS	Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
	Paper No. 2	CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES OF GOVERNMENT AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES IN AFRICA	Solomon Dersso
	Paper No. 3	MANDATES OR ‘BLIND’ DATES? ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF MANDATE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES SUPPORTING AFRICAN PEACE OPERATIONS	Ann Fitz-Gerald, Paula MacPhee, and Olga Romanova
	Paper No. 4	AFRICAN SOLUTIONS TO AFRICAN CHALLENGES?: A STATISTICAL OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION IN CIVIL WARS IN AFRICA	Allard Duursma
	Paper No. 5	BOTTOM-UP OR TOP-DOWN? THE NEED FOR A RELEVANT,‘GROUNDED’ AND DISTINGUISHING PEACE OPERATIONS DOCTRINE FOR THE AFRICAN STANDBY FORCE	Ann Fitz-Gerald
	Paper No. 6	AMISOM: CHARTING A NEW COURSE FOR AFRICAN UNION PEACE MISSIONS	Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu and Daniel Gebreegziabher Kebede
	Paper No. 7	REFLECTIONS ON PEACE IN SUDAN	Alex de Waal
	Paper No. 8	ADVANCING AN ANTI-ATROCITY AGENDA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY	Bridget Conley
	Paper No. 9	PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS FROM SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (SGBV) INSIGHTS FOR AFRICAN UNION PEACE MISSIONS	Dyan Mazurana
	Paper No. 10	HITTING THE POLITICAL HEART OF DECISION-MAKING POWER: TARGETED SANCTIONS, MULTILATERAL PEACE MISSIONS AND THE KEY ROLE OF UN PANELS OF EXPERTS IN AFRICA	Benjamin J. Spatz
	Paper No. 11	INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN LIBYA SINCE 2011: LESSONS LEARNED	Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux and Tarek Megerisi
	Paper No. 12	THE AFRICAN UNION AND RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS IN LIBYA	Dawit Toga
	Paper No. 13	LESSONS FROM AU-UN COOPERATION IN PEACE OPERATIONS IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR)	Tatiana Carayannis andMignonne Fowlis
	Paper No. 14	LESSONS FROM AU-UN COOPERATION IN PEACE OPERATIONS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)	Tatiana Caryannis andAaron Pangburn
	Paper No. 15	THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN LIBERIA	Lansana Gberie
	Paper No. 16	TRANSITION FROM WAR TO PEACE: The Ethiopian DDR experience	Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
	Paper No. 17	THE POST-TRANSITION ETHIOPIAN SSR EXPERIENCE	Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
	Paper No. 18	DO MEDIATIONS FORGE MISSIONS WITHOUT END? Dynamics of mission exit	Sophia Dawkins
	Paper No. 19	INTERSTATE TRANSNATIONAL ARMED POLITICS IN AFRICA	Noel Twagiramungu
	Paper No. 20	THE EVOLUTION OF POST CONFLICT SECURITY SECTOR REFORM IN AFRICA	Sarah Detzner
	Paper No. 21	DECODING THE TRIUMPH OF DOCTRINE: The success of Ghana’s international peace support operations	John Parkyendu Frinjuah
	Paper No. 22	BEHIND THE CLICHÉ OF THE ‘DESERT WARRIORS’: Militarized politics and Idriss Déby’s global political capital	Marielle Debos
	Paper No. 23	PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN	Abebe Teklehaymanot Kahsay

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