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Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems
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Plagued by bloody wars and armed conflicts, political instability, communal violence and displaced persons, and at the mercy of natural catastrophes such as drought and famine, it is not surprising that the Western press has long dismissed Africa as the hopeless continent. In the face of these challenges, Africa today is faced with a stark choice: either unite or perish. The debate on why and how the continent should unite in terms of co-operative peace, security and development is more urgent than at any other time in Africas post-colonial history. Moving forward from the failure of the earlier, typically idealistic Africa unity project, David Francis demonstrates how peace and security challenges have created the imperative for change. He argues that a series of regional peace and security systems are emerging, and that states that have participated in practical experiments in regional peacekeeping, peace support operations, conflict stabilization/management and preventive diplomacy are building de facto systems of peace and security that could be institutionalized and extended.

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UNITING AFRICA

Daniel Tmou
and
Ella Agnes Amani

For educating me to understand and appreciate
the more important things in life family

David J. Francis 2006

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.

David J. Francis has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Francis, David J., 1965-

Uniting Africa : building regional peace and security systems

1. African Union 2. Organization of African Unity 3. National security - Africa 4. Africa - Politics and government - 21st century

I. Title

355.03356

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Francis, David J., 1965-

Uniting Africa : building regional peace and security systems / by David J. Francis.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7546-4685-8 (hardback)--ISBN 0-7546-4689-0 (pbk)

1. National security--Africa. 2. Africa--Politics and government--21st century. 3. Organization of African Unity. I. Title.

UA855.F72 2005

355.03356--dc22

2005028247

ISBN 0 7546 4685 8 (hbk)

ISBN 0 7546 4689 0 (Pbk)

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This book project has been a personal discovery and, in the process, I have accumulated a debt of gratitude to a variety of people and institutions. To my wife, Dagmar, I am eternally grateful for her unfailing support and encouragement to complete this project, especially when the tormenting stress, but equally joyous and rewarding life of parenthood, was sometimes unbearable. To Daniel Tmou and Ella Agnes Amani, I owe you my peace and happiness, and my humble thanks for giving me a new lease of life. And to Gerhard and Ella Waiblinger, my gratitude for providing the space to complete this manuscript, and in particular, Ella's supply of cakes made the stressful completion of this project humane and rather healthy.

I also owe a debt of gratitude to my commissioning editor, Kirstin Howgate for her understanding and patience with my inability to meet previous deadlines. Let me take this opportunity to acknowledge the indirect contributions of the Geneva-based UN-affiliated University for Peace Africa programme, the Bruges-based United Nations University-Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU/CRIS) programme, and the British Council-DFID Higher Education Links programme for not only providing access to and networks with African academics and policy practitioners, but also the opportunities for quasi-research field visits for this book project.

In the writing of this book, I have been entertained by and debated with a vast number of students, in particular, postgraduate and research students, and academics in Europe and Africa. To them, I am grateful for helping to clarify my thoughts on some of the critical and controversial issues addressed in this manuscript. Similarly, I owe a debt of gratitude to the researchers and officers at the African regional organisations and economic groupings, in particular, ECOWAS, SADC, CEWARN, AU, COMESA, and IGAD, for providing access to valuable documents and sharing their views on the potential role and contribution of regionalism to the maintenance of peace and security in Africa.

The technical aspects for the completion of this manuscript would have been a tortuous process, but for the efficiency and technical expertise of Eriko Otaki and Judy Wall, both Research Assistants at the Africa Centre. To them, I owe a special debt of gratitude. In addition, I am grateful for the academic debates with my colleagues at the Africa Centre, as they provided the singular opportunity to reject some of my underdeveloped and unfocused ideas. And, above all, I am simply thankful to my God and saviour Jesus Christ for making this project a reality.

David J. Francis

AAF	Allied Armed Forces
AAFC	Allied Armed Forces of the Community
ACOTA	African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance
ACRI	African Crisis Response Initiative
ADF	Allied Democratic Forces
ADFL	Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire
AEC	African Economic Community
AFRC	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
AMIB	African Mission in Burundi
AMIS	African Union MIssion in Sudan (Inter-African Mission in the Darfur Region of Sudan)
AMU	Arab Maghreb Union
ANAD	Accord de Non-Aggression et dAssistance en Matiere de Defence
AOF	Afrique Occidentale Francaise
APC	All Peoples Congress
APRM	African Peer Review Mechanism
ASAS	Association of Southern African States
AU	African Union
BMATT	British Military Advisory and Training Teams
CEAO	Communaute Economique de lAfrique de lOuest (West African Economic Community (Francophone))
CEWARN	Conflict Early WARNing and Response Mechanism
CMF	Commonwealth Monitoring Force (Zimbabwe)
COMESA	Common Market for East and Southern Africa
COMIC	Observer Mission in the Comoros (OAU)
CONSAS	Constellation of Southern Africans
CPEs	Complex Political Emergencies
CPLP	Comunidade dos Pases de Lngua Portuguesa (Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries)
CPMR	Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution
CSSDCA	Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Co-operation in Africa
DDR	Disarmament, Demobilisation and Re-integration
DFID	Department for International Development (UK Government)
DoP	Declaration of Principles
DPKO	Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UN)
DRC	D emocratic Republic of Congo
EACSO	East African Common Services Organisation
EASBRIG	Eastern African Standby Brigade
ECA	Economic Commission for Africa (UN)
EC-ACP	European Community-African Caribbean Pacific
ECCAS	Economic Community of Central African States
ECOMIL	ECOWAS Mission in Liberia
ECOMOG	Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
ECOSOCC	Economic, Social and Cultural Council

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