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The Role and Place of the African Standby Force Within the African Th e role and place of the African Standby Force within the African Peace and Security Architecture INTRODUCTION being instituted and will operate. Th is is followed by an examination of the role and place of the ASF within the In the post-Cold War era, the peace and security scene of APSA. Th e paper then focuses on an examination of the Africa has changed fundamentally. Th is change relates ASF concept and plan and the work currently under way not only to the changing nature of confl icts and the focus for its operationalisation to interrogate the potential and of the discourse on security, but also to various initia- limitations of the ASF. Th e requirements for the success- tives taken by Africa to institute an eff ective peace and ful operationalisation of the ASF and the issues that pose security regime. In this context a remarkable develop- a serious challenge for the ASF’s role as a critical tool in ment has been the establishment of an African Peace and AU’s endeavour of confl ict prevention and management Security Architecture (APSA) by the continental body, are considered in the following section. Th e paper closes the African Union (AU). One of the most important - with some conclusions and observations. and probably the most ambitious - institutional tools that the AU decided to establish as part of the APSA is the Method and scope African Standby Force (ASF).1 Th e ASF is intended to be one of the mechanisms through which the AU seeks to Th e study is both descriptive and analytical in its approach. respond to future confl icts and crisis situations on the Accordingly, in the main body of the paper an overview continent ‘timely and effi ciently’.2 is given of the normative and institutional framework of Th is paper seeks to highlight the importance and the APSA. Th e paper also contains a critical analysis of the place of the ASF within the APSA and critically exam- role, proposed plan and concept of the ASF and examines ines the potential of the ASF and the challenges facing shortcomings and challenges that would limit the potential it as one of the most important mechanisms for the of the ASF as one of AU’s critical response mechanisms for AU’s strategic response to confl icts. It is argued that as confl ict prevention, management and resolution in Africa. much as the activities aimed at operationalising the ASF Th e study made use of both primary and secondary prepare the ASF for its role as the most important tool for sources and draws heavily on offi cial documents such realising the historical promises of the AU to ordinary as treaties, declarations and policy instruments. Th is is Africans as encapsulated, among others, by Article 4(h) supplemented by information gathered through personal of the Constitutive Act of the African Union, they also observation and involvement in AU events relevant to reveal the enormous challenges that would militate the subject. While the study used the available literature against the realisation of its full potential. on the subject in the form of books, articles and reports, it seeks to make a limited but signifi cant contribution Organisation to the existing literature by off ering information on and insights into the APSA. Th e paper is divided into seven parts. Th e introduction is followed by a brief outline of the nature of current THE TRENDS AND NATURE OF and future confl icts and security threats with which the CONFLICTS IN AFRICA continent needs to contend, among others by the deploy- ment of the ASF. Th e next section analyses the normative Although the number of confl icts on the continent and institutional framework within which the ASF is has declined compared to the 1990s,3 the post-colonial Dr Solomon A. Dersso • ISS Paper 209 • January 2010 African state continues to be prone to violent clashes, involvement of external actors either from within the which oft en results in complex emergency situa- region or outside. tions. During the past decade, many countries - the Most of these confl icts are and will continue to be Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Central intra-state confl icts, albeit with admittedly signifi cant African Republic, Uganda, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Sudan, regional dimensions. Th ese confl icts have certain features Somalia, Angola, Mali, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, that have to be considered when striving to develop an Congo Brazzaville and the Comoros - have been subject- eff ective response. One of the characteristics of these ed to long-standing confl icts and new violent confl icts confl icts in Africa is their persistence. Another character- erupted in many others (including Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan istic is the multiplicity of actors involved in these confl icts. (Darfur), Chad, Nigeria, and Kenya). As Richard Jackson According to Jackson, ‘African wars are characterized by noted, ‘[m]any other African states face instability, high the involvement of a multiplicity and diversity of military levels of domestic political violence, or burgeoning seces- and non-military actors.’16 Th ese include government mili- sionist or rebel movements’.4 tary groups (formal and informal, internal and external), In the 21st century confl icts, particularly of the rebels, insurgents, private militias, warlords, mercenaries, internal kind,5 continue to pose as serious a threat as private security providers, multinational corporations, disease and drought to the life, security and property and other business interest groups. Th ose involved in the of people and the survival of the post-colonial African actual fi ghting are ‘amply supplied with arms, obsessively state.6 Th ere are several factors that suggest that Africa secretive, inexperienced in negotiations, lacking transpar- will continue to witness violent confl icts and serious ent lines of authority, undisciplined, unfamiliar with the political upheavals. Th e fi rst is the continued fragility norms of international behaviour (including humanitarian or weakness of many states in Africa.7 Th is relates to law) and violent’.17 the illegitimate origin of the African state, its corrupt Many of these parties pursue or are mainly moti- and authoritarian systems of governance, the aliena- vated by non-political objectives. As studies of several tion of state structures and processes from the public, of the confl icts in for example Liberia, Angola, Sierra and the failure of state institutions to provide for the Leone, the DRC and Somalia show, for many of these needs of citizens in any meaningful way.8 Other, related participants ‘warfare is a smokescreen for the pursuit factors are the failure of the consolidation of demo- of accumulation in the form of direct exploitation of cratic forms of governance in many parts of Africa and valuable commodities such as diamonds, the monopo- the decline of constitutionalism.9 Related to these two lisation of trade and taxation, the establishment of is the rise of political instability in many countries, protection rackets, the diversion of emergency aids or as manifested in post-election confl icts in countries sanctions busting – among others’.18 Th ese situations such as Kenya,10 Zimbabwe,11 Nigeria,12 Lesotho13 and are exacerbated by the proliferation of weapons and Ethiopia.14 the resultant militarisation of the population in the aff ected areas. Th e confl icts are also not conducted by means of There are several factors that traditional warfare but employ various unconventional methods of combat, including terror tactics such as suggest that Africa will continue deliberate mutilation, terrorism, rape and forcible conscription, which oft en target civilians, women and to witness violent confl icts and children. In a number of these confl icts children have been recruited as combatants.19 In fact, civilians oft en serious political upheavals become the deliberate targets of warfare and hence suff er more casualties than combatants.20 Serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law are committed21 and Th e persistent high level of poverty and the rise in the there is a large-scale displacement of people as refugees susceptibility of many parts of Africa to drought as try to fl ee from the violence.22 a result of climate change add to the vulnerability of In many of these confl icts, the state machinery has many African states to confl ict.15 Other factors that collapsed or is very weak. Governance structures such shape the trend and dynamics of confl icts in Africa as the parliamentary process, the security apparatus, include struggles over scarce resources and the exploita- the justice system, prison administration and public tion of natural resources, inequalities among members administration, as well as local structures, are dysfunc- of diff erent groups and regions, ethnic domination as tional or non-existent. In other cases these confl icts well as ethnic or ethno-regional rivalry and manipula- themselves lead to the collapse of state institutions and tion, uneven progress in economic development, and law and order. 2 The role and place of the African Standby Force • ISS Paper 209 • January 2010 Although it is true that these confl icts are mainly warring factions and also involve state or nation-building intra-state in nature, they oft en have an external dimen- initiatives. sion due to the involvement of regional actors. Th e three major confl ict situations currently occurring in Africa, THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE namely in Darfur, Somalia and the DRC, aptly illustrate ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY how neighbouring states become involved in intra-state INTO THE AFRICAN UNION: TOWARDS confl icts with a resultant spill-over eff ect on regional sta- A NEW PEACE AND SECURITY REGIME bility.
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