Publication

This issue of Conflict Trends contains articles on 1) UN peacekeeping operations and their role in conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding; 2) transnational security threats to peacekeeping in Mali; 3) the AU's stabilization operations and how to improve them; 4) how to improve the efficiency of the AU African Standby Force; 5) the role of international policing in the peacebuilding process; and 6) how the African Standby Force can support humanitarian action. It also includes fact files on the Southern African Development Community's Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre and UN initiatives to respond to sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations.