African Capacity-Building for Peace Operations: UN Collaboration with the African Union and ECOWAS
Peacekeeping in Africa has grown dramatically over the last five years, with the continent hosting more peacekeepers than any other region. In early 2005, the United Nations led seven peace operations there, in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia/Eritrea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Western Sahara, with an eighth planned for […]
The Responsibility to Protect: Considering the Operational Capacity for Civilian Protection
Commissioned by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, this draft working paper addresses national militaries’ and international organizations’ operational capacity to protect civilians from genocide, ethnic, cleansing, and mass death. It builds on the framework for intervention offered by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and its 2001 report “The Responsibility […]