Keeping Peace in Africa in the 21st Century

... there has been an unprecedented surge in both the scale of peacekeeping and peacebuilding activities, as well as in the number of actors engaged in conflict resolution. Complex and challenging, the African security landscape presents the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU), and the broader international community with numerous opportunities for trial, error, and experimentation. The African continent has long been subject to much mythmaking and stereotyping, with countless colonial and postcolonial legacies ...