Received:
2022-11-11 | Accepted:
2023-02-25 | Published:
2023-03-30
Title
African peacekeeping operations in recent years
Abstract
The article aims to present a general outlook of the ongoing peacekeeping operations of the most important international, European and African military and civilian organizations. Peacekeeping has become very important after the independence of African countries because of the continuous conflicts that devastate the war-torn continent. The establishments taking part in this effort include the United Nations, NATO, the European Union and the African Union. After giving a general picture of the nature of the peacekeeping operations, the article goes on one by one each of the organizations to describe their role and participation in the recent peacekeeping activities that characterize the world's landscape now. In the end, the author assesses the situation, gives a comprehensive conclusion and provides some future aspects that he thinks will be probable in the forthcoming years regarding peacekeeping attitudes.
Keywords
peacekeeping, Africa, United Nations, NATO, European Union, African Union
JEL classifications
R59
URI
http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/126
DOI
Pages
72-85
Funding
The research was financed by Óbuda University (Hungary)
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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