RECOMMENDED READINGS
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- African Union. 2003. “Policy Framework for the Establishment of an African Standby Force and Military Staff Committee (Part I),” May 12–14, 2003, Addis Ababa, Exp/ASF-MSC/2(1).
- African Union. 2004. “Solemn Launching of Peace and Security Council, 10th Meeting.” Addis Ababa, African Union Commission (May 25, 2004).
- Archer, Margaret, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, et al. 1998. Critical Realism: Essential Readings. London and New York: Routledge.
- Cooperrider, David and Diana Whitney. 2005. Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Store.
- Kioko, Ben. 2003. “The Right of Intervention Under the African Union's Constitutive Act: From Non-Interference to Non-Intervention.” IRRC 85(852): 807–825.
- Mangala, Jack (ed.). 2010. New Security Threats and Crises in Africa: Regional and International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Raleigh, Clionadh. 2014. “Political Hierarchies and Landscapes of Conflict Across Africa.” Political Geography 42: 92–103.
- Rice, Laura. 2007. Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
- Rugumamu, Severine. 2002. “Conflict Management in Africa: Diagnosis of Current Practices and Future Prospects.” Available at <http://unpanI.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/CAFRAD/UNPAN009062.pdf >, last accessed April 5, 2017.
- Teghtsoonian, Katherine. 2016. “Methods, Discourse, Activism: Comparing Institutional Ethnography and Governmentality.” Critical Policy Studies 10(3): 330–347.
- Williams, Paul D. and Arthur Boutellis. 2014. “Partnership Peacekeeping: Challenges and Opportunities in the United Nations–African Union Relationship.” African Affairs 113(451): 254–278.
- Yirenkyi-Boateng, Solomon. 2016. “Towards a Critical Realist Perspective on African Conflicts.” International Journal of African Renaissance Studies 11(1): 103–122.