Towards studying African interventions ‘from below’ – A short conclusion

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Notes on contributors

Gilbert Khadiagala is based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Antonia Witt, who served as the guest editor of this special issue, is at the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.

Notes

1. See for instance Engel U & JG Porto, ‘Imagining, implementing, and integrating the African Peace and Security Architecture: The African Union’s challenges’, African Security, 7.3, 2014, pp. 135–46; Vines A, ‘A decade of African Peace and Security Architecture’, International Affairs, 89.1, 2013, pp. 89–119; African Union, African Peace and Security Architecture APSA Roadmap 2016–2020. Addis Ababa: African Union, 2015.

2. See also for instance Murithi T, ‘The African Union at ten: An appraisal’, African Affairs, 111.445, 2012, p. 667.

3. Hagberg S & G Körling, ‘Socio-political turmoil in Mali: the public debate following the coup d’état on 22 March 2012’, Africa Spectrum, 47.2–3, 2012, pp. 111–25; Sabrow S, ‘Local perceptions of the legitimacy of peace operations by the UN, regional organisations and individual states – A case study of the Mali conflict’, International Peacekeeping, 24.1, 2017, pp. 159–86.

4. See for a critical discussion MacGinty R & OP Richmond, ‘The local turn in peace building: A critical agenda for peace’, Third World Quarterly, 34.5, 763–83; Simons C & F Zanker, Questioning the Local in Peacebuilding. Working Paper of the Priority Programme 1448 of the German Research Foundation, No. 10. Leipzig/Halle: SPP 1448, 2014.