IS 470 - War and Peace in Africa

Instructor: Col. James J. Hentz
Location: Scott Ship 449
Date/Time: Monday-Friday 9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Credit Hours: 3

Africa has had serious conflicts in the past twenty-five years, with casualties between 3,800,000 and 6,899,000. There are more U.N. peace keeping troops in Africa than on any other continent. As of 2006, seventy five percent of all U.N. peacekeepers were in Africa; the U.N. conducted nineteen “complex peace operations” since the end of the Cold War, ten of them in Africa. During the last decade, more than half of Africa’s states have been in warfare. It is home to most of the world’s conflicts. The fact that Africa leads the international system in conflict begs for an explanation why. The fact that these wars do not look like classical wars also begs for an explanation.