- Titel
- Mapping Intervention Practices of ECOWAS and the African Union
- Untertitel
- Methodological and Practical Challenges
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-998482
- Schriftenreihe
- Working paper series des SFB 1199 an der Universität Leipzig
- Bandnummer
- 22
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2020
- ISBN
- 978-3-96023-304-6
- Abstract (EN)
- To date, mapping African peace and security developments has mostly meant different mappings of conflict dynamics in Africa. In contrast to this dominant trend, we have started to map conflict intervention practices of African regional organizations (ROs), specifically ECOWAS1 and the African Union (AU), based on a comprehensive review of different official documents that these ROs have produced for ‘internal’ reporting as well as ‘external’ communications. While the first results of this work have become part of a detailed study of basic intervention practices of African ROs and their intimate connection to space-making during conflict interventions (see Herpolsheimer 2021 [forthcoming]), in this working paper we reflect in more detail about the methodological and practical challenges inherent in mapping intervention practices based on official documents of ROs. Moreover, building on these reflections, we discuss strengths and weaknesses of our approach and identify several directions into which it could be developed, thereby allowing for new empirical and theoretical insights on African Peace and Security. In this, we argue that some of the methodological and practical challenges identified in this paper already point to interesting dynamics and allow for several important observations. To this end, we begin with a brief review of the literature, identifying the gaps that we want to address. First, this refers to literature on African Peace and Security, insufficiently capturing multiple, non-military intervention practices of ROs. Second, it refers to existing mapping projects, which largely focus on mapping conflict dynamics, not intervention practices. Subsequently, we introduce our approach towards mapping intervention practices, reflecting upon methodological and practical choices. Following this, we outline the main challenges that still remain, before identifying different directions for research based on our mapping.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- ECOWAS, African Union, Intervention Practices, mapping
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 300
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1199 Processes of Spatialisation under the Global Condition, Leipzig
- Verlag
- Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- eingereichte Version / Preprint
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-998482
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 20.10.2025
- Dokumenttyp
- Forschungsbericht
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
