How much weight for military capabilities? Africa's new peace and security architecture and the role of external actors (original) (raw)

The given situation on the ground: positive tendencies, but at the same time persistence of violent conflict and structural conflict potentials 3 The new peace and security architecture 3.1 Pillars of the new peace and security architecture 3.2 First cases of application in practice 4 New approaches of external actors 4.1 Africa: the international security agenda and geostrategic considerations 4.2 Military interventions and peace missions 4.3 Cross-policy-field and development-policy approaches to providing support for African capacities to undertake peace missions 5 Conclusions: Inconsistencies and dilemmas-chances and risks of the African peace and security agenda 5.1 Altered constellation of interests: intervention vs. nonintervention 5.2 Standards for engagement of external actors 5.3 Ownership vs. dependence on external actors 5.4 Long-term and broad external engagement 5.5 The role of development policy Map 1: War and armed conflict in Africa, 2004 6 Map 2: Sub-Saharan Africa: Zones of stability and instability and concentrations of interests in the exploitation of oil and mineral resources 13 Bibliography 22

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