From the OAU to the AU: a normative shift with implications for peacekeeping and conflict management, or just a name change?(Organization of African Unity, African Union)

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law | March 1, 2006| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

Many of the nations of Africa have struggled with violence since their independence from colonial powers. The formation of an intercontinental body, the Organization for African Unity, did little to reduce the number or severity of the conflicts. The failure of this organization to maintain peace was due in large part to normative boundaries that prevented its involvement in the internal conflicts of its member nations. The Organization of African Unity was dissolved in favor of a new organization, the African Union, in 2001. The mandate of the African ...

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