Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab. The book's two parts provide a history of the mission from its genesis in an earlier, failed regional initiative in 2005 up to mid-2017, as well as an analysis of the mission's six most important challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond. AMISOM was remarkable in several respects: it would become the African Union's (AU) largest peace operation by a considerable margin deploying over 22,000 soldiers; it became the longest running mission under AU command and control, outlasting the nearest contender by over seven years; it also became the AU's most expensive operation, at its peak costing approximately US$1 billion per year; and, sadly, AMISOM became the AU's deadliest mission. Although often referred to as a peacekeeping operation, AMISOM's troops were given a range of daunting tasks that went well beyond the realm of peacekeeping, including VIP protection, war-fighting, counterinsurgency, stabilization, and state-building as well as supporting electoral processes and facilitating humanitarian assistance.
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Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peace operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.
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Introduction Part 1: History 1: Genesis: October 2004 - March 2007 2: Entry: March 2007 - January 2009 3: Stalemate: January 2009 - August 2010 4: Offensive: September 2010 - October 2011 5: Expansion: October 2011 - September 2012 6: Consolidation: September 2012 - December 2013 7: Surge: January 2014 - May 2017 Part 2: Challenges 8: Logistics 9: Security Sector Reform 10: Civilian Protection 11: Strategic Communications 12: Stabilization 13: Exit Conclusion Appendix A: A note on major Somali non-state armed groups Appendix B: AMISOM's senior leadership, March 2007-August 2017 Appendix C: A note on AMISOM fatality estimates
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Paul Williams ... has given us a comprehensive, richly-documented, and reliably sober account of the first ten years of the African Union's mission to the troubled country of Somalia.
This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) It provides a historical overview and analysis of the mission Provides a case study of six key issues in debates about contemporary peace operations around the world In addition to over 200 interviews, the book is based on unrivalled access to hundreds of internal mission documents as well as those from international partner organizations
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Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, second edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, second edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).
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This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) It provides a historical overview and analysis of the mission Provides a case study of six key issues in debates about contemporary peace operations around the world In addition to over 200 interviews, the book is based on unrivalled access to hundreds of internal mission documents as well as those from international partner organizations
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ISBN
9780198724544
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
754 gr
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242 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
388

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Biographical note

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, second edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, second edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).