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This paper investigates the lessons UN peacekeepers can learn from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), particularly given the growing number of stabilization tasks UN peace forces are being asked to perform. The text’s authors specifically examine 1) AMISOM’s transformation from a peacekeeping to a stabilization mission and the complications that ensued; 2) why the consolidation operations that followed this realignment achieved, at best, mixed results; and 3) the nine lessons the UN can learn from AMISOM’s stabilization efforts in Somalia.