“This issue of Conflict Trends covers the specific developments in African peacekeeping and peacebuilding,
and the synergies and overlapping concerns
that exist between them. With the current global economic decline, the challenges of peacekeeping and peacebuilding on the continent are even more acute. It is
these challenges that we must address, realistically and over the long term, if keeping the peace and building the
peace are to succeed on the African continent.”
