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Conflict Trends 2002/3

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Focus on Peacekeeping

"This special issue on peacekeeping comes two years, almost to the month, after the release of a report from the panel of experts on United Nations peace operations – the so-called Brahimi Report. In this issue, we look at what progress has been made since this landmark report was released. We also take a snapshot of the current missions in Africa, and ask what major trends and issues could shape the future of peacekeeping in Africa during the next decade."

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Contents

Editorial
Cedric de Coning

Foreword
Vasu Gounden

Features

Trends in Preventive Action
Britt de Klerk

Trends in Constitutional and Political Developments
Paul Nantulya

United Nations Peacekeeping
Jean-Marie Guehenno

Building Capacity for African Peacekeeping: An Overview of Peacekeeping Training Centres in Africa
Nicky Hay

Norway's Role in supporting capacity-building in Africa
Jon Bech

Training Tomorrow's Peacekeepers Today: The Peacekeeping Programme at ACCORD
Kwezi Mngqibisa

An interview with the United Nations (UN) secretary-general, Kofi Annan
Conflict Trends

The United Nations in the Aftermath of the Crisis in Sierra Leone
Theo Neethling

Peacekeeping in Africa: The Next Decade
Cedric De Coning

Book Review

Princeton N. Lyman - Partner to History
Brendan Vickers

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