The Politics of Peacekeeping

Peace Management and Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Perspective

“…This marked the beginning of the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS). 15 Its initial success in stabilizing the situation on the ground was not followed by a Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which could have paved the way for peace and development in Darfur. The challenges on the ground were formidable: protection of a dispersed civilian population and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to over 2 million internally displaced persons and 300,000 refugees.…”

UNAMID and the Legitimation of Global-Regional Peacekeeping Cooperation: Partnership and Friction in UN-AU Relations

“…Evaluations note that UNAMID has been mired by disputes over its mandate, failed to meet most of its goals, and encountered ongoing challenges by the Sudanese government, rebel factions and civil society groupsthe very stakeholders it was supposed to accommodate (Gelot 2012, 127-131;Heywood and Maeresera 2019). While some keep upholding UNAMID as a best practice (Gambari 2018), officials especially in the UN have all but abandoned the hybrid approach (Bashua 2014). A UN Special Research Report (Security Council Report 2011, 19) noted that 'several members of the Security Council have now began [sic] to point to UNAMID as a model to be avoided rather than emulated in the future', while the High-Level Independent Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (HIPPO 2015, 21) called it 'a mere shadow of its original purpose'.…”