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First published on March 18, 2008, doi:10.1177/0021934708314990

Journal of Black Studies 2008;38:830.

A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2008
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United Nations Peace Missions in Africa: Transformations and Determinants

Assefaw Bariagaber*

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bariagas{at}shu.edu.


  Abstract
The author examines the trajectory that United Nations (UN) peace operations in Africa have taken over the past 10 years and provides an answer to the following interrelated questions: Why have UN peace missions in Africa dramatically grown in frequency and scope in the past 10 years, when Africa has become increasingly peaceful, and which variables have been critical to this dramatic growth? The author (a) empirically demonstrates the quantitative and qualitative growth of UN peace missions in Africa and (b) identifies systemic-, continental-, and individual-level variables that contributed to this growth. The author argues that the convergence of these variables at different levels has provided the conditions necessary and sufficient for changes in the frequency, nature, and scope of UN peace missions in Africa over the past 10 years.


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