Intervention and sovereignty in Africa : conflict resolution and international organisations in Darfur / by Irit Back.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Back, Irit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Union. Mission in Sudan.

African Union.

Humanitarian intervention--Sudan--Darfur.

Humanitarian intervention.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003-.

Sudan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Intervention & sovereignty in Africa : conflict resolution & international organisations in Darfur

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Summary:

"In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging abuse of human rights was accepted on a pan-continental level. Here, Irit Back looks at the changes in attitudes towards the ever-problematic tension between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty, using the example of the African Union's intervention in Darfur to illustrate this unique pan-continental approach to conflict resolution and peace-keeping. Additionally, Back analyses the challenges which international task forces, including AMIS and its successor the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), have faced ever since. Including an examination of the situation in the wake of the declaration of independence of South Sudan in 2011, this book offers a unique perspective on the problem of internationally organised intervention in local conflicts."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Sovereignty versus Intervention in Africa: Historical and Ideological Background

Chapter 2: Darfur: From Resource-Based Conflicts to Crimes against Humanity

Chapter 3: Intervention from Theory to Practice: The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS)

Chapter 4: From Abéché to Abuja: The African Union Mediation Efforts

Chapter 5: The Government of Sudan Responds to African Union Intervention

Chapter 6: The Transition to UNAMID: A Hybrid Force Experiment

Chapter 7: Darfur and Sudan from the ICC Ruling to Southern Independence

Chapter 8: The Arab Spring, Darfur, and Beyond

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755619108

0755619102

9780857729712

0857729713

OCLC:

1157309157

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9780755619108 doi