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Intervention and Sovereignty in Africa: Conflict Resolution and International Organisations in Darfur
Irit Back
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Hardcover. Series: International Library of African Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 line. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JM; GTJ; HBJH; HBLX; HBWS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 410.
In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging abuse of human rights was accepted on a pan-continental level. Here, Irit Back looks at the changes in attitudes towards the ever-problematic tension between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty, using the example of the African Union's intervention in Darfur to illustrate this unique pan-continental approach ... Read more
In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging abuse of human rights was accepted on a pan-continental level. Here, Irit Back looks at the changes in attitudes towards the ever-problematic tension between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and state sovereignty, using the example of the African Union's intervention in Darfur to illustrate this unique pan-continental approach ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
International Library of African Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784532505
SKU
V9781784532505
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About Irit Back
Irit Back is Research Fellow at The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Islam and Post-Colonial Identity in West Africa (2005).
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