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African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices book cover

1st Edition

African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices

Edited By Antonia Witt, Christof Hartmann, Ulf Engel Copyright 2026
222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Ever since the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) was initiated in the early 2000s, political and research interest has tended to focus on its military components, rather than the more quantitatively important non-military interventions. This book scrutinizes the enactment and effects of African non-military conflict interventions from a range of different perspectives and contexts.... Read more

Foreword

Said Djinnit and El-Ghassim Wane

 

1. Introduction: Studying African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices

Antonia Witt, Christof Hartmann, and Ulf Engel

 

PART I: Practicing African Non-military Conflict Interventions

2. From Horizon Scanning to the Creation of FemWise-Africa: Practices of the AU Panel of the Wise for Gender Mainstreaming

Camille Vern

 

3. The Diplomacy of Discretion: African Union Special Envoys and the Politics of Peacemaking in Tigray

Dimpho Deleglise

 

4. Practicing Inclusion: Civil Society Actors in African Union Conflict Interventions

Jonas Schaaf

 

5. Regional Infrastructures for Peace: Exploring ECOWAS in Regional Peacebuilding Networks

Jasmin Schmitz

 

6. The Role of Practices in Shaping ECOWAS’s External Relationships

Mona Saleh

 

PART II: Mapping African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices

7. Why Paper Matters: Reconstructing AU and ECOWAS Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices Through Documents

Skollan Elisabeth Warnck

 

8. How Are Intervention Practices (Not) Made Visible in Dashboards?

Vincent Joshua Schober and Skollan Elisabeth Warnck

 

9. Conclusion: Centering Non-military Interventions by African Regional Organizations

Gilbert M. Khadiagala

Biography

Antonia Witt is Head of the Research Group ‘African Intervention Politics’ at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany, and Principal Investigator in the research network ‘African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)’. Her research focuses on African regional organizations, legitimacy and authority in international politics, and African interventions in response to coups and political crises, as well as societal perspectives on the African Union (AU) and ECOWAS.

Christof Hartmann is Professor of Political Science, in particular International Relations and African Politics, in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also Principal Investigator in the research network ‘African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)’.

Ulf Engel is Professor for ‘Politics in Africa’ at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, Germany, and Principal Investigator in the research network ‘African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)’. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and a professor extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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