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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956581703321

Autore

Back Irit

Titolo

Intervention and sovereignty in Africa : conflict resolution and international organisations in Darfur / / by Irit Back

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2015

ISBN

9780755619108

0755619102

9780857729712

0857729713

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Disciplina

962.7043

962.4043

Soggetti

Humanitarian intervention - Sudan - Darfur

Violence in society

Sudan History Darfur Conflict, 2003-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Sovereignty versus Intervention in Africa: Historical and Ideological Background -- Chapter 2: Darfur: From Resource-Based Conflicts to Crimes against Humanity -- Chapter 3: Intervention from Theory to Practice: The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) -- Chapter 4: From Abéché to Abuja: The African Union Mediation Efforts -- Chapter 5: The Government of Sudan Responds to African Union Intervention -- Chapter 6: The Transition to UNAMID: A Hybrid Force Experiment -- Chapter 7: Darfur and Sudan from the ICC Ruling to Southern Independence -- Chapter 8: The Arab Spring, Darfur, and Beyond -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging abuse of human rights was accepted on a pan-continental level. Here, Irit Back looks at the changes in attitudes towards the ever-problematic tension between the concepts of



humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty, using the example of the African Union's intervention in Darfur to illustrate this unique pan-continental approach to conflict resolution and peace-keeping. Additionally, Back analyses the challenges which international task forces, including AMIS and its successor the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), have faced ever since. Including an examination of the situation in the wake of the declaration of independence of South Sudan in 2011, this book offers a unique perspective on the problem of internationally organised intervention in local conflicts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.