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| Title: | 'Fighting for peace': South Africa's role in peace operations in Africa (Part I) |
| Authors: | Heinecken, Lindy Ferreira, Rialize  |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Periodical: | African Security Review (ISSN 2154-0128) |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 20-35 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Burundi Congo (Democratic Republic of) South Africa Sudan |
| Subjects: | peacekeeping operations civil wars |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2011.641686 |
| Abstract: | In Africa, most of the present conflicts are civil, intra-State wars where belligerent groups use guerrilla tactics to achieve various political, economic or ideological objectives. The atrocities and the effect of these ongoing wars on innocent civilians, human suffering, poverty and development are beyond comprehension. Not surprisingly, the majority of current peace operations are in Africa, with more than 70 countries contributing forces to these conflict zones. On the continent, South Africa has come to assume a leading role in peace operations and is now a major troop-contributing country to UN and African Union missions. In the past 11 years, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has taken part in no fewer than 14 peace missions. This article provides a brief background to the conflicts in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan, the different UN and AU mandates under which peacekeepers had to operate as well as their objectives, and the extent of South Africa's involvement in the various missions. In the last section, the major challenges that these operations have posed are highlighted. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
