TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Paul
TI  - Fighting for peace in Somalia: a history and analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017 
SN  - 0198724543
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - OUP
KW  - national security
KW  - Somalia
KW  - peacekeeping forces
KW  - peacekeeping operations
KW  - AU
KW  - AMISOM
N1  - SIP1812; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an 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.00The book's two parts provide a history of the mission from its genesis in an earlier, failed regional initiative in 2005 up to mid-2017, as well as an analysis of the mission's six most important challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond
ER  -