Fragmented Peacekeeping: The African Union in Somalia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Albrecht, Peter; Haenlein, Cathy
• Is Part Of: RUSI journal. Volume 161:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 50
• Page End: 61
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Military art and science -- Periodicals; Naval art and science -- Periodicals; 355.005
• DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2016.1152121
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0307-1847

Abstract

Abstract : From uncertain beginnings, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has grown, over almost ten years, into the regional organisation's largest peace-support operation. Bolstered by a multilayered mission architecture through which the UN and bilateral donors provide financial, logistical and technical support, it has achieved important gains against the jihadi Islamist organisation Al-Shabaab. The apparent viability of these partnerships has seen AMISOM hailed as a successful model of collaboration between regional and international structures. Peter Albrecht and Cathy Haenlein examine a less-studied dimension of this model, namely the intersection of these arrangements with the structural fragmentation that has increasingly come to define the mission.