Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, second edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, second edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).

• Introduction Part 1: History 1: Genesis: October 2004 - March 2007 2: Entry: March 2007 - January 2009 3: Stalemate: January 2009 - August 2010 4: Offensive: September 2010 - October 2011 5: Expansion: October 2011 - September 2012 6: Consolidation: September 2012 - December 2013 7: Surge: January 2014 - May 2017 Part 2: Challenges 8: Logistics 9: Security Sector Reform 10: Civilian Protection 11: Strategic Communications 12: Stabilization 13: Exit Conclusion Appendix A: A note on major Somali non-state armed groups Appendix B: AMISOM's senior leadership, March 2007-August 2017 Appendix C: A note on AMISOM fatality estimates

Paul Williams ... has given us a comprehensive, richly-documented, and reliably sober account of the first ten years of the African Union's mission to the troubled country of Somalia.

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, second edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, second edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).

• Introduction Part 1: History 1: Genesis: October 2004 - March 2007 2: Entry: March 2007 - January 2009 3: Stalemate: January 2009 - August 2010 4: Offensive: September 2010 - October 2011 5: Expansion: October 2011 - September 2012 6: Consolidation: September 2012 - December 2013 7: Surge: January 2014 - May 2017 Part 2: Challenges 8: Logistics 9: Security Sector Reform 10: Civilian Protection 11: Strategic Communications 12: Stabilization 13: Exit Conclusion Appendix A: A note on major Somali non-state armed groups Appendix B: AMISOM's senior leadership, March 2007-August 2017 Appendix C: A note on AMISOM fatality estimates

Paul Williams ... has given us a comprehensive, richly-documented, and reliably sober account of the first ten years of the African Union's mission to the troubled country of Somalia.

Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr Williams is also a Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute in New York where he manages the Providing for Peacekeeping Project. Between 2014-15, Dr Williams served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. His publications include War and Conflict in Africa, second edition (Polity, 2016), Understanding Peacekeeping, second edition (Polity, 2010), and Providing Peacekeepers (co-edited with A.J. Bellamy, OUP, 2013).

• Introduction Part 1: History 1: Genesis: October 2004 - March 2007 2: Entry: March 2007 - January 2009 3: Stalemate: January 2009 - August 2010 4: Offensive: September 2010 - October 2011 5: Expansion: October 2011 - September 2012 6: Consolidation: September 2012 - December 2013 7: Surge: January 2014 - May 2017 Part 2: Challenges 8: Logistics 9: Security Sector Reform 10: Civilian Protection 11: Strategic Communications 12: Stabilization 13: Exit Conclusion Appendix A: A note on major Somali non-state armed groups Appendix B: AMISOM's senior leadership, March 2007-August 2017 Appendix C: A note on AMISOM fatality estimates

Paul Williams ... has given us a comprehensive, richly-documented, and reliably sober account of the first ten years of the African Union's mission to the troubled country of Somalia.