Challenging the United Nations Peace and Security Agenda in Africa / / Dawn Nagar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910502997803321
• Autore: Nagar Dawn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]; c2022
• ISBN: 3-030-83523-5; 9783030835231; 9783030835224
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 397 pages) : illustrations (some colour)
• Soggetti: International relations; Peacekeeping forces - Africa; Electronic books.; Africa Politics and government 1960-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: 60 Years of the United Nations Role in Africa -- Peace and Security Convergence: Africa, the United Nations and the European Union -- Cross-Cutting Security Threats: Money Laundering, Terrorism and Piracy -- Humanitarian Disasters: Climate Change and COVID-19 -- Towards a New Pax-Africana: Book Contents -- 2 The United Nations Role in the Great Lakes Region: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Introductory Overview -- A Neo-Colonial Agenda in the Great Lakes Region: The Democratic Republic of the Congo-Historical Perspectives -- Rwanda and Burundi: Historical Perspectives14 -- Burundi's Agricultural and Mineral Resource Exploitation During the 1970s and 1980s Amid Massacres and Violence24 -- Conflict Prevention and Fact-Finding Missions in Burundi: 1993-6 -- Africa' Regional-Continental Approach to Burundi's Conflicts -- Burundi: UN Post-Conflict Reconstruction Under a Peacekeeping UN Charter Mandate of Chapter VII -- Burundi: ; UN Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Electoral Monitoring Efforts, 2005-19 -- Donor Packages to Propel Burundi's 2006: Comprehensive Ceasefire Agreement -- A Regional Economic Approach to Burundi's Peacemaking Model -- Burundi's DDR Processes -- Burundi's Post-Conflict Reconstruction Efforts: During Elections of 2010, 2015 and 2019 -- From BINUB to BNUB and MENUB, 2015-19 -- United Nations in Rwanda 1993 Supported by the OAU -- Africa's First World War 1998: The Great Lakes creation-The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- UN's Peacekeeping: An Electoral Approach in the DRC 2000-2021 -- Elections in the DRC: UN Involvement 2005-18 -- War Economies of the Great Lakes and Mineral Resources -- Who Guards the Guard?.; 3 United Nations Role in the Economic Community of Central African States: Central African Republic and Chad -- Chapter Overview -- Central African Economic Community: Overview -- Central African Republic: The Securitisation of Economics -- Political Ethnic Rivalry and Resource Greed in CAR -- Chad's Regional Proxy Wars: From Independence to Inter-Regional Dependency -- Chad Political Opposition and the Government -- The Regionalisation of CAR's Conflict: 1997-2014 -- Force Majeure: Peace Agreements Signed To Halt Slaughter And Grave Human Rights Atrocities of CAR's Civilians, Amid The Securitisation Of Mineral Exploitation Rights: 2007-2020 -- Economics, Peace and Security: Council Divergence and Bilateral Convergence -- 4 United Nations Role in Sudan, South Sudan and Abyei -- Introduction -- Historical Overview: The Two Sudans and Abyei -- Regional Proxy Wars: Sudan and Chad -- United Nations Interdepartmental Task Force on Sudan, 2003 and the African Union Mission in Sudan -- The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 -- United Nations Mission in Sudan and the UN-AU Hybrid Operation in Darfur -- Referendum for the Self-Determination of South Sudan and Abyei: United Nations Mission in South Sudan -- Concluding Remarks -- 5 The United Nations Role the Horn of Africa: The Case of Somalia -- Introduction -- Somalia's Historical Background -- Three Decades of Somalia's Intra- and Inter-State Wars: Between 1960 And 1990-Lacking United Nations Presence -- United Nations Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Role In Somalia-1991: Mediating Ceasefire Attempts -- UNOSOM, UNITAF and UNOSOM II -- Advocacy and Lobbying Efforts of the UNSC's Secretary-General: Aid for Trade -- Aid for Trade to Compensate Humanitarian Needs During Post-Conflict Reconstruction Efforts -- UNOSOM II REVISED MANDATE, NOVEMBER 1993.; UNOSOM II: Humanitarian Post-conflict Reconstruction Efforts -- Starts and Stops Towards a Transitional National Council, 1993-2000 -- UNOSOM II Security Sector and Judiciary Reforms -- Somalia's Transitional Government 2001-2008 -- Elimination of the Transitional Government Members -- Establishment of Somalia's Federal Government and Interim President, 2004 -- Relocation of the Transitional Federal Government -- Advocacy and Lobbying for Peacekeepers in Somalia -- The Power and Control of the Islamic Courts Exerted Over Somalia 2006: Against the ARPCT and the TFG -- The League of Arab States' Bilateral Mediation Efforts with Somalia TFG And Opposition, August 2006 -- The TFG Relocation From Baidoa to Mogadishu: 2008 -- Parallel Conference in Eritrea and the Formation of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia -- The Alliance for the Reconstruction and the Re-liberation of Somalia and the TFG Join Hands -- AMISOM -- Advocacy and Lobbing Efforts of Somalia's Transitional Government for a Bolstered Peacekeeping Force 2009 -- Mediation Efforts and Inclusion of Rehabilitated Union of Islamic Courts' ; Members into Somalia's TFG -- The US War on Terror in Somalia -- Piracy -- Regional Fight Against Terrorism -- Somalia's Wars and Political Economy: Agriculture and Oil resources -- Agricultural Resources -- Marine Resources -- Oil Resources -- Moving Somalia from Transitional Governance to Democratic Elections: 2010-11 -- Transitional Federal Government, 2011 -- Establishment of the Federal Government: Mogadishu and Its Six Federal States: 2013-2021 -- 6 The Role of the United Nations in North Africa: The Case of Morocco and Western Sahara -- Introduction -- Historical Overview -- Morocco and Western Sahara: An Emergence of Transnational Crime -- Peacemaking in Morocco and Western Sahara.; United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, 1988-2021 -- Economics, Greed, Xenophobia and Racism: Trumps a Referendum for Western Sahara -- Concluding Remarks -- 7 The United Nations Role in the G5-Sahel, West, and Southern Africa: The Case of Angola -- Introduction -- Background -- United Nations Office in West Africa: The Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Negotiations -- West Africa and the Sahel's Contemporary Peace and Security Challenges -- The African Union International Support Mission to Mali-AFISMA, and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali-MINUSMA -- Terrorists Insurgency in the Sahel and West Africa -- UNOWAS Mandate 2014-23 -- G5 Sahel Force 2017 -- The Sahel Alliance: Geopolitical and Strategic Interests -- Economic Models to Boost Human Capital and Investment -- United Nations Role in Southern Africa: The Case of Angola -- Southern Africa's Historical Security Background78 -- Colonised Regional Integration86 -- United Nations in Angola: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking and Peacebuilding -- United Nations: Post-Conflict Reconstruction Efforts -- 8 Conclusion: Defining a New Pax-Africana -- Background Note -- Towards Normative Proposals African Union Peace and Security Council's Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre -- Maritime Security: AU African Governance Architecture, RECs/RMs levels -- AU Peace and Security Council's Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre: Towards Advancing Agricultural Trade Within a Post-Conflict Reconstruction Framework -- The AU's Peace Support Operations -- The African Standby Brigade40 -- African Union's African Governance Architecture-PLANELMs at Commission, National and Regional Levels: Money Laundering, Maritime Security, Terrorism and Cyber-Crime -- Final Word -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Having followed previous studies and ongoing debates on UN reform, this significant piece of work provides a relevant contribution as a critique of the United Nations' involvement in Africa over a critical period of more than half a century. The book will serve as a valuable resource that provides a comprehensive conceptual framework of thought-provoking arguments and recommendations. These will benefit policy-makers and practitioners fundamental to UN-Africa partnerships, for the achievement of sustainable human capital development, peace, and stability across the African continent." --Ambassador Dr Patrick I. Gomes, Former Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group of States (now known as the Organisation of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific States [OACPS]) This book concerns the United Nations' peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18 countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and Southern Africa. The book develops a ; neo-realist and imperialist critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests. Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral engagement involves Africa's 55 states and the African Union's three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich, conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty. This book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa, which resonates to scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, and African politics. Dawn Nagar holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Masters degrees in Politics and International Relations; and Philosophy from the Universities of Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela University), South Africa, respectively.; This book concerns the United Nations' peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18 countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests. Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral engagement involves Africa's 55 states and the African Union's three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich, conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty. This book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa, which resonates to scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, and African politics.