1. The Broader Horn:Peacekeeping in a Strategic Vacuum
- Author:
- A. Sarjoh Bah
- Publication Date:
- 03-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center on International Cooperation
- Abstract:
- The deployment of peacekeepers is increasingly becoming a reflex solution to crises, often in the absence of viable political agreements. The cluster of peace operations in the Broader Horn of Africa – stretching from Central African Republic and Chad, through Sudan, to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia – epitomizes both practices. Moreover, though the conflicts in the region are deeply inter-linked, the peace operations there are not, nor do they form part of a broader regional strategy. Lack of a regional strategy compounds pre-existing problems of weak commitment and slow implementation. The results have been unsurprisingly poor, at great human cost.
- Topic:
- Conflict Resolution, Peace Studies, and Post Colonialism
- Political Geography:
- Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea