Fighting for Peace in Somalia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Civilian Protection ◽  
Peace Operation ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world’s deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab. The book’s two parts provide a history of the mission from its genesis in an earlier, failed regional initiative in 2005 up to mid-2017, as well as an analysis of the mission’s six most important challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond. AMISOM was remarkable in several respects: it would become the African Union’s (AU) largest peace operation by a considerable margin, deploying over 22,000 soldiers; it became the longest running mission under AU command and control, outlasting the nearest contender by over seven years; it also became the AU’s most expensive operation, at its peak costing approximately US$1 billion per year; and, sadly, AMISOM became the AU’s deadliest mission. Although often referred to as a peacekeeping operation, AMISOM’s personnel were given a range of daunting tasks that went well beyond the realm of peacekeeping, including VIP protection, war-fighting, counterinsurgency, stabilization, and state-building as well as supporting electoral processes and facilitating humanitarian assistance.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Exit Strategy ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Civilian Protection ◽  
Operational Dimension

Rather than repeating the lessons and conclusions identified in Part II of this book relating to logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and exit strategy, this concluding chapter reflects on how to assess AMISOM’s first ten years of operations and what this means for whether the ‘AMISOM model’ should be replicated elsewhere. It does so by first summarizing previous attempts to distil lessons from the mission before analysing AMISOM’s key successes and failures. The final section reflects on the future prospects of the ‘AMISOM model’ with reference to its approach to political authority, financing, as well as the operational dimension of peace operations.

scholarly journals الاجراءات الأمنية والانسانية لبناء السلام في مرحلة ما بعد النزاع

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
vaheel jabbar chalabee
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation ◽  
Conflict Period

الملخص بناء السلام بعد انتهاء النزاع عملية طويلة الامد، وتستوجب تظافر كل الجهود وعلى جميع المستويات وصولا الى حل الأسباب التي أدت الى نشوب النزاع ووصول أطرافه او حصولهم على حقوقهم، كي نكون أمام حالة سلام ايجابي دائم، وهذا يستلزم القيام بالعديد من الاجراءات وفي مقدمتها الاجراءات الأمنية والانسانية وهذا ما ركز عليه بحثنا، حيث قمنا بدراسة مفهوم السلام ومستوياته في المبحث الاول، وفي المبحث الثاني قمنا بتوضيح الاجراءات الأمنية والاصلاحية كنزع السلاح واصلاح القطاع الأمني كالشرطة، ونزع مخلفات الحرب كالألغام، نظراً لخطورة الوضع بعد انتهاء النزاع مباشرة والذي يستوجب معالجة سريعة لهذه الامور، كذلك بحثنا في الاجراءات الانسانية والاعمارية المتمثلة بتقديم المساعدات الانسانية واعادة النازحين والمهجرين والبدء في بناء البنية الاساسية والاقتصادية، والتي تعد ركائز لديمومة السلام وتحقيق المصالحة بين الفئات المتناحرة، وتوصلنا في ختام البحث الى جملة من الاستنتاجات والتوصيات.الكلمات الدالة: بناء السلام، النزاع، الاجراءات الامنية، اعادة الاعمار، مستويات السلام، نزع السلاح، ازالة الالغام.AbstractSecurity And Humanitarian Procedures To Build Peace In Post Conflict Period Building peace in post-conflict is a long-term process. It requires concerted efforts at all levels to resolve the causes of the conflict and giving the parties their rights to be in a state of lasting positive peace. This requires a number of measures or procedures, We discussed the concept of peace and its levels in the first topic. In the second, we explained the security and reform measures such as disarmament, security sector reform such as the police, and the removal of remnants of war such as mines, for the big risk of the situation in post conflict period, it demands immediate handle. And we also discussed in our research the humanitarian and reconstruction measures of providing humanitarian assistance, the return of the displaced, and the start of building the infrastructure and economy, which are the pillars of lasting peace and reconciliation between the conflicted groups. At the end of the study we reached a number of conclusions and recommendations. Key words: peacebuilding, Conflict, Security procedures, Reconstruction, levels of peace, Disarmament, Demining.

Barriers to Operationalising the “Women, Peace & Security” Doctrine in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Harris Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Response ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Slow Progress ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
High Level

This article argues that there are two barriers to operationalising the Women Peace and Security resolutions at the mission level that deserve further attention. The first barrier is that the legal architecture has flaws, and does not seem to be matched with a commensurate political commitment that shapes the high-level un response at the level of mandate. The second barrier relates to the institutional ability to deliver a peacekeeping mission with gender equality at its heart, related to the capacity of domestic militaries. The article argues that there needs to be deeper thinking about the capabilities of modern militaries to fulfil complex peace operations which contain the imperative for gender sensitive for conflict analysis, planning, security sector reform, disarmament, ddr, and disaster response. The slow progress of gender reform of militaries is hindering credible regulatory responses in un missions. The article concludes that this creates lingering distrust of military intervention as a tool to protect women and girls, even from conflict-related sexual violence, even in a peace-keeping context.

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