scholarly journals Tony Karbo and Kudrat Virk (eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa.

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Mira Abrahamyan
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
African Union ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Regional Organisations ◽  
External Actors

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-contributing countries. In so doing, it revisits the late Ali Mazrui’s concept of Pax Africana, calling on Africans to take responsibility for peace and security on their own continent. The creation of the African Union, in 2002, was an important step towards realising this ambition, and has led to the development of a new continental architecture for more robust conflict management. But, as the volume’s authors show, the quest for Pax Africana faces challenges. Combining thematic analyses and case studies, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on peace, security, and governance issues in Africa.

scholarly journals Sustaining the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda: The Role of UN Peacekeeping in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Lisa Sharland
Keyword(s):  
Peace Operations ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Peace Operation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Women And Girls

Abstract Peacebuilding is less likely to succeed without the participation and consideration of women. In the last two decades, peace operations deployed on the African continent under the banner of the United Nations and the African Union have included mandates focused on strengthening women’s participation in peace processes, ensuring the protection of women and girls, and integrating gender considerations into the approach of missions at building sustainable peace. This chapter examines the approaches undertaken in two case study countries—Liberia (where a long-standing UN peace operation has recently departed) and South Sudan (where a UN peace operation continues to operate with significant constraints)—in order to examine some of the challenges and opportunities that UN engagement has offered in terms of advancing equality and women’s security in each country.

scholarly journals Place of Mediation in the Monitoring of the Educational Process Conflict Factors in the Conditions of Modern Risks

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Anna G. Pinkevich ◽  
George P. Artemov
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Process Conflict

This article deals with the role of mediation in conflict management and especially in the monitoring of conflict factors of education activities. In the article the authors analyse the system of monitoring and its principles and methods. Special attention is paid to the integration of monitoring and mediation. Recently, the mediation institution has been developing quite actively in Russia. Mediation is a negotiation with a third neutral party. It differs from negotiations by the removal of responsibility for carrying out procedures from representatives of the parties. It is one of the ways of conflict prevention and regulation. The article shows different models of embedding of mediation into the conflict management system in high school. Mediation and monitoring are considered as important parts of this management

Peacekeeping cooperation between the United Nations and regional organisations

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIKARU YAMASHITA
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
African Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
Regional Organisations ◽  
The United Nations

AbstractThis article considers a conceptual framework for peacekeeping cooperation between the United Nations and regional organisations. It articulates the ‘subcontracting’ and ‘partnering’ modes of global-regional peacekeeping cooperation, and examines how they have been practiced through efforts to form institutional partnerships with the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU). The article argues that there is incremental progress in institutionalising global-regional cooperation in peacekeeping, and yet managing such cooperation in the future requires a clearer understanding of the role of the UN in the globalisation of peacekeeping.

ROLE OF LEADER IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CONFLICTS IN THE TEAM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Sydorko
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
High Production Efficiency ◽  
High Production ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This article examines the nature and significance of the conflict in the team. The role of leader in conflict resolution within the team. Practical recommendations for the prevention of conflict, its prevention and relaxation. Analyzed the positive and negative features conflictive. Identified psychological conditions and techniques including conflict prevention in a group. Make suggestions on choosing the best methods of conflict management in collective activity in modern conditions. Defined the role of conflict in the life of the individual, family, group, state, society and humanity in general. The role of leader is very important, as it depends on him peace and harmony in the team, its development, progress and effectiveness of the organization. Therefore the main task of managers at any level should lie to focus on improving their own skills, raising a suitable quality, gaining experience successful conduct of management, which is a guarantee of high production efficiency and competitiveness.

Understanding Success and Failure in the Quest for Peace: The Pan-African Parliament and the Amani Forum

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Magliveras ◽  
Asteris Huliaras
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
African Union ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Institutional Ties

Parliaments in Africa have traditionally been sidelined with regard to security and peace issues. This article compares the Pan-African Parliament, the parliamentary organ of the African Union, with the Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace, better known as the Amani Forum, which started as an informal regional network and later developed more formal structures. The analysis focuses on the role of these two institutions in conflict prevention. While the Amani Forum provides an excellent example of the potential contribution of parliamentary forums to promoting and restoring peace, the Pan-African Parliament has been unable to operate as an effective parliamentary organ in conflict resolution and prevention. The article examines several factors that can explain the contrasting performances of the two institutions: their formal and informal structures; different membership and organizational structures; the density and quality of intra-institutional ties; as well as differences in geographical and thematic focus.

R2P and the Role of Regional Organisations in Ethnic Conflict Management, Prevention and Resolution: The Unfinished Agenda

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Carment ◽  
Martin Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Threshold ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Preventive Action ◽  
Regional Organisations ◽  
Regional Organisation

AbstractThe Responsibility to Protect (hereafter R2P) agendas have established a fairly high threshold for engagement by third parties in ethnic conflict when seen through the lens of direct intervention by means of force or coercion in order to mitigate overt forms of ethnic conflict such as ethnic cleansing and genocide. The absence of regional organisation activity in this area is understandable given the enormous political and financial costs associated with intervention. Yet the R2P agenda also carries with it a preventive component, and in this regard there is reason to be a little more optimistic. Ten years ago on the advice of the Brahimi Report, investments were made by most regional organisations to strengthen capacity for preventive action. In this article, we return to the question of whether and how regional organisations can or do conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the R2P's preventive component. The article unfolds in four sections. In the first part, we assess the role of regional organisations in implementing the R2P agendas. We begin with an identification of each regional organisation that either implicitly or explicitly references the R2P framework in their mandates, charters and doctrine. These organisations include the OSCE, the AU, the OAS, SAARC, ECOWAS, and ASEAN among others. Second, we provide a comparative framework that specifies the ways in which R2P is reflected in the activities of each regional organisation, with reference to capacity building, charter development, preventive diplomacy, direct engagement, and conflict management. This evaluative framework allows us to determine if there has been any shift in the way in which these organisations conduct themselves with respect to R2P principles. In the third part of the article we assess the Darfur case to illustrate our evaluative framework. The question we ask is: are the actions of the organisations involved in these conflicts consistent with R2P in its preventive as well as its interventionist interpretations? In the fourth and final section we conclude with implications for theory and policy and make some recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Challenges and Opportunities of the Use of Military Diplomacy in Intrastate Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (03) ◽  
pp. 606-625
Author(s):  
Charles Okongo Imbiakha ◽  
Pontian Godfrey Okoth ◽  
Edmond Maloba Were
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
African Union ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Intrastate Conflict ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Intrastate Conflicts ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Military ◽  
Military Diplomacy

Military diplomacy is increasingly relied on in the management of intra state conflicts globally. Far more common and controversial is the issue of combat troops to help end fighting in an intractable conflict. The Horn of Africa is an epitome of intractable regional intrastate conflicts   that have attracted international, regional and even individual state military and humanitarian intervention since the 1970s. The Somalia and Sudan crises provide typical examples in which such efforts have been witnessed yet they also provide a case study of successful military diplomacy by African states in states engaged in protracted intra-state conflicts. This study was conceived to evaluate the challenges and opportunities of the use of military diplomacy in intrastate conflict management in the Horn of Africa. The study was located in the rational logic theory. It was carried out among peace groups and individuals who had participated in peace processes in the Horn of Africa. These were located in Mogadishu and Kismayu, Khartoum and Juba and embassies in Kenya that represent the Horn of Africa countries. Security personnel who have had a role in the Horn of Africa peace processes at African Union (AU), Inter - Governmental Authority on Development  (IGAD), East Africa Standby Force (EASF), United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), United Nations Africa (Union) Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and African (Union) Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were key informants. The study used purposive sampling and snowballing to determine the sample size. Data was collected using interview schedules and questionnaires which were analyzed using Concurrent Nested (Embedded) Design. Secondary data were gathered and reviewed from Journals, books and published proceedings that corroborated the primary data. The findings indicate that the obscurity of the military and the rubric in the understanding of military diplomacy poses a challenge for the military to influence intrastate conflicts in the Horn of Africa. This is compounded by other challenges including the Cold War mentality that has made the region to witness a series of foreign activities leading to militarization of the Horn of Africa with establishment of military bases in the Horn of Africa. Peace support operations are expensive to manage yet the missions undertaken in the Horn of Africa lack sustainable source of funds and instead over rely on foreign funding and goodwill. With no sufficient funds, buying equipment and paying the staff becomes a big challenge. Emerging threats and clan dynamics are actualities that the use of military diplomacy was found to face as a challenge. To change these challenges into opportunities requires rational logic from all stakeholders in the conflict management process

scholarly journals The Prevention of Armed Conflicts as an Emerging Norm in International Conflict Management: The OSCE and the UN as Norm Leaders

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Ackermann
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
International Norm ◽  
Three Stages

This article explores the emergence of conflict prevention as an emerging norm in international conflict management. In particular, it examines the role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations as primary actors in the construction and promotion of conflict prevention as an international norm. The article describes some of the major instruments that both organizations have already developed to implement the prevention of armed conflict on a more consistent rather than ad hoc basis. The article traces the emergent norm of conflict prevention through three stages—the awarenessraising and advocacy stage; the acceptance and institutionalization stage; and the internationalization stage. Although it is argued that conflict prevention as an emerging norm may eventually become firmly institutionalized and internationalized, at this point in time it remains for the most part in the advocacy stage. Regional organizations, such as the OSCE, have been more successful in moving conflict prevention toward acceptance and institutionalization, albeit on a regional level.

scholarly journals International dispute settlement in Africa: Dispute Settlement and Conflict Resolution under the Organization of African Unity, the African Union, and African Traditional Practices: A Critical Assessment

2017 ◽  
pp. 57-92
Author(s):  
Aranzazu Pagoaga Ruiz de la Illa
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Unity ◽  
International Dispute ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
The Common

The proliferation of conflicts of different scope and nature in the African continent has been identified as one of the factors hindering the development of the continent, leading to efforts to create due mechanisms to tackle them. This essay examines both the OAU and AU mechanisms, compares them and assesses their adequacy for the settlement of African disputes. Once these shortcomings are identified, this dissertation looks into the common characteristics of traditional dispute settlement and conflict management to discuss whether they can somehow contribute to the improvement of modern institutional mechanisms.Published online: 11 December 2017

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