African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices

Antonia Witt is Head of the Research Group ‘African Intervention Politics’ at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany, and Principal Investigator in the research network ‘African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)’. Her research focuses on African regional organizations, legitimacy and authority in international politics, and African interventions in response to coups and political crises, as well as societal perspectives on the African Union (AU) and ECOWAS.Christof Hartmann is Professor of Political Science, in particular International Relations and African Politics, in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also Principal Investigator in the research network ‘African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)’.Ulf Engel is Professor for ‘Politics in Africa’ at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, Germany, and Principal Investigator in the research network ‘African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices (ANCIP)’. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and a professor extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• Foreword 1. Introduction: Studying African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices PART I: Practicing African Non-military Conflict Interventions 2. From Horizon Scanning to the Creation of FemWise-Africa: Practices of the AU Panel of the Wise for Gender Mainstreaming 3. The Diplomacy of Discretion: African Union Special Envoys and the Politics of Peacemaking in Tigray 4. Practicing Inclusion: Civil Society Actors in African Union Conflict Interventions 5. Regional Infrastructures for Peace: Exploring ECOWAS in Regional Peacebuilding Networks 6. The Role of Practices in Shaping ECOWAS’s External Relationships PART II: Mapping African Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices 7. Why Paper Matters: Reconstructing AU and ECOWAS Non-military Conflict Intervention Practices Through Documents 8. How are Intervention Practices (Not) Made Visible in Dashboards? 9. Conclusion: Centering Non-military Interventions by African Regional Organizations