Challenging the United Nations peace and security agenda in Africa / Dawn Nagar.
Nagar, Dawn, author.
2021
JZ5584.A35 N34 2021
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Title
Challenging the United Nations peace and security agenda in Africa / Dawn Nagar.
Author
Nagar, Dawn, author.
ISBN
3030835235 (electronic book)
9783030835231 (electronic bk.)
9783030835224 (hardcover)
3030835227 (hardcover)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83523-1
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (colour)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-83523-1 doi
Call Number
JZ5584.A35 N34 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.172096
Summary
This book concerns the United Nations peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-building, and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Africa from 1960 to 2021. Succinctly discussed are historic and contemporary peace, security, and economic engagements within 18 countries spanning eight African regions: the Great Lakes; the Economic Community of Central African States; East Africa; the Horn of Africa; North Africa; the Sahel Region; West Africa; and Southern Africa. The book develops a neo-realist and imperialist critique that discusses how resource-rich, conflict-ridden states have become easy targets for capitalists, terrorists, and transnational crime, aligned to geostrategic parochial interests. Critically argued is that endogenous economic growth factors, if applied effectively, can achieve both peace and security, and meet the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Such efforts require constructive engagement with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. However, the book contends that the cornerstone of multilateral engagement involves Africas 55 states and the African Unions three major pillars: the Peace and Security Council, the African Governance Architecture, and the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Development Centre, which have the ability to move resource-rich, conflict-ridden states out of transnational crime and poverty. This book offers wide-ranging analyses of contemporary African diplomacy and a compelling critique of UN peacekeeping efforts in Africa, which resonates to scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, and African politics. Dawn Nagar holds a Ph. D. in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Masters degrees in Politics and International Relations; and Philosophy from the Universities of Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela University), South Africa, respectively.
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​Chapter 1. Introduction: Peace and Security Mechanisms of Economic Prosperity Chapter 2. The United Nations in the Great Lakes Region: The Case of Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Chapter 3. The United Nations in Central Africa: The Case of Central Africa Republic Chapter 4. The United Nations in West Africa: The Cases of Côte d'Ivoire and Mali Chapter 5. The United Nations in East Africa: The Cases of Sudan, South Sudan, and Abyei Chapter 6. The United Nations in the Horn of Africa: The Case of Somalia Chapter 7. The United Nations in North Africa: Western Sahara and Morocco Chapter 8. UN Security Council: A Peace and Security Curse.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations and Acronyms
List of Figures
1 Introduction: 60 Years of the United Nations Role in Africa
Peace and Security Convergence: Africa, the United Nations and the European Union
Cross-Cutting Security Threats: Money Laundering, Terrorism and Piracy
Humanitarian Disasters: Climate Change and COVID-19
Towards a New Pax-Africana: Book Contents
2 The United Nations Role in the Great Lakes Region: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Introductory Overview

A Neo-Colonial Agenda in the Great Lakes Region: The Democratic Republic of the Congo-Historical Perspectives
Rwanda and Burundi: Historical Perspectives14
Burundi's Agricultural and Mineral Resource Exploitation During the 1970s and 1980s Amid Massacres and Violence24
Conflict Prevention and Fact-Finding Missions in Burundi: 1993-6
Africa' Regional-Continental Approach to Burundi's Conflicts
Burundi: UN Post-Conflict Reconstruction Under a Peacekeeping UN Charter Mandate of Chapter VII
Burundi: UN Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Electoral Monitoring Efforts, 2005-19

Donor Packages to Propel Burundi's 2006: Comprehensive Ceasefire Agreement
A Regional Economic Approach to Burundi's Peacemaking Model
Burundi's DDR Processes
Burundi's Post-Conflict Reconstruction Efforts: During Elections of 2010, 2015 and 2019
From BINUB to BNUB and MENUB, 2015-19
United Nations in Rwanda 1993 Supported by the OAU
Africa's First World War 1998: The Great Lakes creation-The Democratic Republic of the Congo
UN's Peacekeeping: An Electoral Approach in the DRC 2000-2021
Elections in the DRC: UN Involvement 2005-18

War Economies of the Great Lakes and Mineral Resources
Who Guards the Guard?
3 United Nations Role in the Economic Community of Central African States: Central African Republic and Chad
Chapter Overview
Central African Economic Community: Overview
Central African Republic: The Securitisation of Economics
Political Ethnic Rivalry and Resource Greed in CAR
Chad's Regional Proxy Wars: From Independence to Inter-Regional Dependency
Chad Political Opposition and the Government
The Regionalisation of CAR's Conflict: 1997-2014

Force Majeure: Peace Agreements Signed To Halt Slaughter And Grave Human Rights Atrocities of CAR's Civilians, Amid The Securitisation Of Mineral Exploitation Rights: 2007-2020
Economics, Peace and Security: Council Divergence and Bilateral Convergence
4 United Nations Role in Sudan, South Sudan and Abyei
Introduction
Historical Overview: The Two Sudans and Abyei
Regional Proxy Wars: Sudan and Chad
United Nations Interdepartmental Task Force on Sudan, 2003 and the African Union Mission in Sudan
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005

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