Peace Operations in the Francophone World
This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces. Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for intervention that deserves more serious attention, if only because it provides fertile ground for exploring the key questions raised in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature.
Filling a gap in the current literature, Peace Operations in the Francophone World critically examines peacekeeping and peacebuilding practices in the francophone world, including but not limited to conflict prevention and resolution, security sector reform (SSR), francophone politics, and NorthSouth relations. The book explores whether peace and security operations in francophone spaces have exceptional characteristics when compared with those carried out in other parts of the world and assesses whether an analysis of these operations in the francophone world can make a specific and original contribution to wider international debates about peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
This book will be of interest to students of peacekeeping, peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, African politics, security studies, and IR in general.
Bruno Charbonneau is Associate Professor of Political Science at Laurentian University and Director of the Observatoire sur les missions de paix et oprations humanitaires at the Universit du Qubec Montral, Canada. He has written widely on the international politics of intervention in Francophone Africa.
Tony Chafer is Professor of Contemporary French Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and Director of its Centre for European and International Studies Research. He has written widely on Franco-African relations in the colonial and post-colonial periods.
Cass Series on Peacekeeping
General Editor: Michael Pugh
This series examines all aspects of peacekeeping, from the political, operational, and legal dimensions to the developmental and humanitarian issues that must be dealt with by all those involved with peacekeeping in the world today.
Beyond the Emergency
Development within UN peace missions
Edited by Jeremy Ginifer
The UN, Peace and Force
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Mediating in Cyprus
The Cypriot communities and the United Nations
Oliver P. Richmond
Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies
Edited by Jim Whitman
Peacekeeping and Public Information
Caught in the Crossfire
Ingrid A. Lehmann
The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy Under Clinton
A fairweather friend?
Michael G. MacKinnon
Peacebuilding and Police Reform
Edited by Tor Tanke Holm and Espen Barth Eide
Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution
Edited by Tom Woodhouse and Oliver Ramsbotham
Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century
Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha Sriram
Women and International Peacekeeping
Edited by Louise Olsson and Torunn L. Tryggestad
Recovering from Civil Conflict
Reconciliation, peace and development
Edited by Edward Newman and Albrecht Schnabel
Mitigating Conflict
The role of NGOs
Edited by Henry F. Carey and Oliver P. Richmond
Ireland and International Peacekeeping 19602000
A study of Irish motivation
Katsumi Ishizuka
Peace Operations After 11 September 2001
Edited by Thierry Tardy
Confronting Past Human Rights Violations
Justice vs peace in times of transition
Chandra Lekha Sriram
The National Politics of Peacekeeping in the PostCold War Era
Edited by David S. Sorensen and Pia Christina Wood
A UNLegion
Between utopia and reality
Stephen Kinloch-Pichat
United Nations Peacekeeping in the PostCold War Era
John Terence ONeill and Nicholas Rees
The Military and Negotiation
The role of the soldierdiplomat
Deborah Goodwin
NATO and Peace Support Operations 19911999
Policies and doctrines
Henning-A. Frantzen
International Sanctions
Between words and wars in the global system
Edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina Staibano
Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations
A new model in the making?
Peter Viggo Jakobsen
Kosovo Between War and Peace
Nationalism, peacebuilding and international trusteeship
Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen and Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Interventionism
Rise and fall of a policy
Leonie G. Murray
Political Ethics and the United Nations
Dag Hammarskjld as Secretary-General
Manuel Frhlich
Statebuilding and Justice Reform
Post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan
Matteo Tondini
Rethinking the Liberal Peace
External models and local alternatives
Edited by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Peace Operations and Organized Crime
Enemies or allies?
Edited by James Cockayne and Adam Lupel
Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Selling the peace?
Edited by Christine Cheng and Dominik Zaum
South America and Peace Operations
Coming of age
Edited by Kai Michael Kenkel
Peace Operations in the Francophone World
Global governance meets post-colonialism
Edited by Bruno Charbonneau and Tony Chafer
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Peace operations in the francophone world : global governance meets post
colonialism / edited by Bruno Charbonneau and Tony Chafer.
pages cm. (Cass series on peacekeeping)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Peacekeeping forcesAfrica, French-speaking.2.Peacekeeping forcesFrench-speaking countries.3.Peace-buildingAfrica, French-speaking.4.Peace-buildingFrench-speaking countries.5.Peacekeeping forcesAfrica, French-speakingCase studies.6.Peacekeeping forcesFrench-speaking countriesCase studies.7.Peace-buildingAfrica, French-speakingCase studies.8.Peace-buildingFrench-speaking countriesCase studies.9.Africa, French-speakingStrategic aspects.I.Charbonneau, Bruno, author, editor of compilation.II.Chafer, Tony, editor of compilation.
