The African union mission and peace building in Somalia: a case study of Mogadishu
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2019-09
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Kampala International University. College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The peace building functions by Africa Union is one of the good efforts towards retaining
peace in Somalia. Somalia has experienced turmoil for so many decades. The peace
buildings by AU are caught up by many challenges. The main one been funds to facilitate the
functions. Though those challenges are there, the study has found out that, the AU has really
tried to calm down the war. The research also wanted to find out the intentions of AU
towards those functions, but it can ascertain that they are positive. The objectives of the study
are to investigate the role of AU in peace building in Somalia. The roles of AU can be
classified as positive. If the AU had enough funds towards these functions it could have done
tremendous job. The other objective is to examine if the citizens of Somalia are benefiting out
of these functions by African Union, the answer to that is yes, because it has been witnessed
as majority of Somalia citizens who were refugees going back to their country. The linkage
between peace building functions and peace keeping operations. So the study can
conclude by saying, unlike other Unions with hidden agendas in aiding other nation the
African Union has none. The study used structural conflict theory as a theoretical framework.
The bases of this theoretical framework are on issues of competition of resources. Every
individual is struggling to have resources. This issue led to people fighting each other
because of resources, as a result they ended up killing each other. This issue of competition for
resources it has made the functions of peace building by African Union very complicated.
Those who acquired resources unjustly are against peace building for the fear their resources
will be taken away. The key finding of the study is that the institutions of Somalia need to be
strengthening if not to re-made a new. These institutions like Judiciary they must be there to
collect the injustices which are there in Somalia. To add on that the issue of funding also
needs to be looked at. Issues of funds have made the functions of peace building in Somalia
complicated. All nations need to be supporting the nations in conflicts like Somalia Finally
the research conclusions are that, for the peace building functions to be successive
they need the contribution of every individual, that is the individual from Somalia and also
the outside countries
Description
A research report submitted to the college of humanities and social sciences, department of political and administrative studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a bachelor degree in international relations of Kampala International University
Keywords
African union mission, Peace building