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Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peace operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: History
- 1: Genesis: October 2004 - March 2007
- 2: Entry: March 2007 - January 2009
- 3: Stalemate: January 2009 - August 2010
- 4: Offensive: September 2010 - October 2011
- 5: Expansion: October 2011 - September 2012
- 6: Consolidation: September 2012 - December 2013
- 7: Surge: January 2014 - May 2017
- Part 2: Challenges
- 8: Logistics
- 9: Security Sector Reform
- 10: Civilian Protection
- 11: Strategic Communications
- 12: Stabilization
- 13: Exit
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: A note on major Somali non-state armed groups
- Appendix B: AMISOM's senior leadership, March 2007-August 2017
- Appendix C: A note on AMISOM fatality estimates
About the author
Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, Second Edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, Second Edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).
Summary
Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peace operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.
