Martin Luther Agwai, Akinbode Fasakin

Peacekeeping in Darfur

The Dilemmas of an African Union-Un Force Commander. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 256 Seiten

ISBN 0755642732

EAN 9780755642731

Veröffentlicht 5. Februar 2026

Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

In 2007, Martin Luther Agwai was deployed to Darfur as Force Commander of UNAMID, which, as the first African Union-UN hybrid mission, was to become the largest peacekeeping operation in the world. Four years earlier, Darfur had imploded, descending into violent conflicts. The international community - in the form of both activists and state actors - felt it could not remain uninvolved lest a genocide on the scale of Rwanda occurred. Despite such lofty intentions, UNAMID proved to be high on promise but low on commitment and delivery. Ultimately, it failed to address the conflicts taking place, much less build a sustainable peace.
Agwai provides unique insight into what went wrong in Darfur, and the myriad challenges facing international peacekeeping operations more generally. Crucially, he highlights the lack of multi-level cooperation between the people of Darfur and the intervening parties, and how the absence of a bottom-up approach to peacebuilding works against peace being both achieved and maintained.