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Title: | The African Union's mandating authority and processes for deploying an ASF mission |
Author: | Dersso, Solomon A. |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | African Security Review (ISSN 2154-0128) |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 73-86 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African Union African peacekeeping forces military intervention authority |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246021003736666 |
Abstract: | Currently, the African Union is in the process of operationalizing the various components of the African Peace and Security Architecture. One of these is the African Standby Force (ASF). Once the ASF becomes operational, it will be used by the AU and regional economic communities for undertaking peace support operations as chief means of conflict management and resolution. In the discussion on this subject, one issue that received very little or no attention is the question of the AU's mandating authority and the decisionmaking processes for deploying an ASF mission. The purpose of this article is accordingly to identify the legal and institutional processes leading towards the deployment of the ASF. To this end, the article seeks to determine the various legally identifiable situations in respect of which the ASF is intended to be deployed as one of the AU's response mechanisms to crisis situations on the continent. It also involves examination of the legal sources of the AU's mandating authority, the decisionmaking processes involved in respect to each of the legally identifiable situations, and the role various actors play in this. Notes, ref., sum. (p. VII). [Journal abstract] |