Special Issue of Conflict Trends

The latest issue of Conflict Trends covers the specific developments in African peacekeeping and peace-building, and the synergies and overlapping concerns that exist between them. With the current global economic decline, the challenges of peacekeeping and peacebuilding on the continent are even more acute. It is these challenges that we must address, realistically and over the long term, if keeping the peace and building the peace are to succeed on the African continent.

Conflict Trends 2009/3

• Editorial by Vasu Gounden

• Peace Operations in Africa: Seven Challenges, Any Solutions? by Paul D. Williams

• Assessing the United Nations Approach to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Africa: The Mission in Liberia by Wilfred Gray-Johnson

• The Reintegration Process for Child Soldiers in Liberia by Janel B. Galvanek

• Addressing Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Liberia by Niels Nagelhus Schia and Benjamin de Carvalho

• Women in Peace Processes: Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda by Surendrini Wijeyaratne

• The Security Dilemma in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Dominic Burbidge

• The Symbiotic Relationship of MONUC and South Africa by Edward Johnson