Abstract: This article engages in the discourse of peacekeeping missions in Africa and the role Regional organizations have had in organizing such operations in the continent of Africa. Specifically, this paper purports to examine the the paper shall highlight some of the success of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and discuss the future of The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) in resolving conflicts in Africa. The AU’s approach to the resolution of the Somalia conflict was a multi-level one, which incorporated the UN and the RECs with the AU. The AU preferred to utilize the IGAD to initiate and direct the peace negotiations in Somalia. AMISOM as a peacekeeping operation was a multilateral undertaking backed by the UN through resolutions UNSCR 1725 and UNSCR 1744. This paper finally highlights some lessons learnt from the mission in the Horn of Africa and how the African Union can facilitate the initiation of negations for peace even in some of Africa’s most conflictual situations.
Keywords: Peacekeeping, Peace, Security, Conflict, AU, Somalia.
Title: THE CHALLENGES OF PEACEKEEPING IN COMPLEX INTRASTATE CONFLICTS, THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION (AMISOM) IN SOMALIA
Author: Idris Mohamud
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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