Peacebuilding in the African Union - Law, Philosophy and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Dr Abou Jeng is a human rights lawyer and Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights in Practice, University of Warwick. His current research focuses on human rights and disaster risk reduction, constitutional governance, globalisation and refugee law. Klappentext An extensive analysis of the norms and legal institutions of the African Union and their relevance to Africa's quest for peace. Zusammenfassung This book is the first to examine the interfaces between international law! peacebuilding and the African Union. Through case studies it assesses the capacity of the African Union's peacebuilding framework and its ability to provide alternative approaches to conflicts in Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Towards an introduction; 2. International law and the Third World; 3. Violence and conflicts in Africa; 4. International law responses to conflicts; 5. The genesis of the African Union; 6. Philosophy and structures of the African Union; 7. The African Union's peacebuilding travails in Burundi; 8. The African Union and peacebuilding in Somalia; 9. Towards an African Union philosophy on peacebuilding?

Product details

• Authors: Abou Jeng, Abou (Human Rights Lawyer Jeng, Jeng Abou
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107015210
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01521-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, LAW / Civil Rights, Politics & government, African History, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: humanitarian law