“…This significantly distinguishes them from the UN peacekeeping doctrine's principles of consent, impartiality, and minimum use of force, naturally allowing for the PoC. Additionally, the AU's civilian component is not formally institutionalised like its military equivalent (Tchie et al, 2022). Therefore, the AU PSOs, for the most part, have focused on carrying out peace enforcement tasks and it lacks multidimensional features like UN PKOs (Bara and Hultman, 2020).…”