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The role of the African Union (AU) in preventing conflicts in African States

Inkanyiso

 
 
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Title The role of the African Union (AU) in preventing conflicts in African States
 
Creator Bamidele, Oluwaseun
 
Subject — African Union; regionalism; security; regional organisations; African region
Description The issue of regionalism is today present throughout the international system, and regional organisations are widely considered to play an important role in relation to regional and sub-regional security. With the sub-regional organisations increasingly overburdened, such regional organisations have emerged as one possible solution to problems associated with state fragility and violence perpetrated by non-state actors. Relative to other regional organisations, the AU has received little attention in the literature and it is not generally considered to have much impact on the prevention of conflicts in the African region like sub-regional organisations. This paper, however, argues that the AU does matter and that rules and norms do make a difference in peace and security more generally. The AU, despite its problems, has played important roles that have helped avert violent conflict in a number of cases in Africa.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2016-06-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ink.v8i1.229
 
Source Inkanyiso; Vol 8, No 1 (2016); 10 2077-8317 2077-2815
 
Language eng
 
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https://inkanyisojournal.org/index.php/ink/article/view/229/335
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2025 Oluwaseun Bamidele https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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