Book Launch: African Peacekeeping
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2022-11-28

Book Launch: African Peacekeeping was a talk given by Jonathan Fisher (University of Birmingham) and Nina Wilèn (University of Antwerp) at SOAS University of London and was recorded on 21st November 2022.

Going beyond the question of why post-conflict states contribute troops to peacekeeping efforts, Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén demonstrate how peacekeeping is – and has been – weaved into Africa's national, regional and international politics more broadly, as well as what implications this has for how we should understand the continent, its history and its politics. In doing so, and drawing on fieldwork undertaken in every region of the continent, Fisher and Wilén explain how profoundly this involvement in peacekeeping has shaped contemporary Africa.

Exploring the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping, this concise and accessible book, based on over a decade of research across ten countries, focuses not on peacekeeping in Africa but, rather, peacekeeping by Africans.

Further details: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-african-peacekeeping