Front cover of the new ANCIP edited volume.
Book Release: Edited Volume "African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices" now available
We are pleased to announce the publication of the edited volume “African Non-Military Conflict Intervention Practices”, edited by ANCIP PIs Antonia Witt, Christof Hartmann, and Ulf Engel, with chapters contributed by ANCIP fellows.
Our edited volume “African Non-Military Conflict Interventions” provides a timely and comprehensive look at how peace and conflict are managed beyond military means within the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Drawing on empirical research from the network’s sub-projects, it examines how African non-military interventions are practiced, institutionalized, and experienced across diverse contexts. The chapters trace a wide range of practices and explore the complex interactions between African Union (AU) and Regional Economic Community (REC) actors, their external partners, and national and local stakeholders. Highlighting often informal and politically sensitive practices, the book reveals the central—but frequently overlooked—ways conflicts are managed on the ground.
The edited volume is organized in two parts: first, a set of empirically grounded chapters on key intervention practices within the AU and RECs; second, a critical examination of how such practices are documented, made visible, or obscured through papers, data, and dashboards. A foreword by Said Djinnit and El-Ghassim Wane and a concluding chapter by Gilbert M. Khadiagala frame the volume’s broader implications.
For more information and on how to order the volume, please visit the publisher’s website.
