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SUMMARY:From Suez to Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa - Dr. Adekeye Adebaj
 o\, Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR)\, Cape 
 Town\, South Africa
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CONTACT:Annette LaRocco
DESCRIPTION:*Dr. Adekeye Adebajo* will present his new book _From Suez to 
 Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa_. This book uniquely assesses the United 
 Nations’ diverse peacekeeping roles in Africa over the last five decades
 \, covering 15 cases in Africa’s five subregions: Suez\, Western Sahara\
 , the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)\, Rwanda\, Burundi\, Namibia\
 , Angola\, Mozambique\, Liberia\, Sierra Leone\, Côte d’Ivoire\, Somali
 a\, Ethiopia/Eritrea\, South Sudan\, and Darfur.\n\nAdopting a historical 
 approach\, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of the key domestic\,
  regional\, and external factors that led to success or failure in each ca
 se\, offering lessons for future UN missions in Africa and beyond. The stu
 dy is based both on the author’s two decades of policy research on the s
 ubject as well as practical experiences with UN missions in Western Sahara
 \, South Africa\, and Iraq\, and African regional institutions and actors.
 \n\nDr. Adekeye Adebajo has been Executive Director of the Centre for Conf
 lict Resolution (CCR)\, Cape Town\, South Africa\, since 2003. He served a
 s Director of the Africa Programme of the New York-based International Pea
 ce Academy.  During the same period\, Dr Adebajo was an Adjunct Professor 
 at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIP
 A) in New York. He previously served on UN missions in South Africa\, West
 ern Sahara\, and Iraq.  Dr Adebajo is the author of Building Peace in West
  Africa\; Liberia’s Civil War\; and The Curse of Berlin: Africa After th
 e Cold War\; co-editor of Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Cen
 tury\; West Africa’s Security Challenges\; A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essay
 s on Africa and the United Nations\; South Africa in Africa\; Nigeria’s 
 Foreign Policy After the Cold War\; and From Global Apartheid to Global Vi
 llage: Africa and the United Nations. He obtained his doctorate from Oxfor
 d University in England\, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.\n
LOCATION:Room 119\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Rd\, 
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