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"Siding with the people" or "Occupying force"? Local perceptions of African Union and ECOWAS interventions in the Gambia
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PRIF - Peace Research Institute Frankfurt / Leibniz-Institut für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Abstract How do African citizens experience and evaluate African regional interventions? This research report examines the case of The Gambia to assess local perceptions of the African Union and ECOWAS, particularly of their interventions in that country since 2016. It is the result of collaborative... view more
How do African citizens experience and evaluate African regional interventions? This research report examines the case of The Gambia to assess local perceptions of the African Union and ECOWAS, particularly of their interventions in that country since 2016. It is the result of collaborative and empirically comprehensive research carried out across the country in 2021/2022. We demonstrate that perceptions of the interventions in The Gambia are complex and diverge starkly, at times even contradicting each other. We explain this complexity as resulting from spatial, temporal, and sociopolitical factors that affect how these African regional interventions are (differently) perceived.... view less
Keywords
Gambia; African Union; military intervention; peacekeeping; local factors; public opinion; West Africa
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Free Keywords
Afrikanische internationale Organisation; Economic Community of West African States; Intervention; Friedenssicherungsfunktion internationaler Akteure; Beziehungen friedensichernder Organe mit dem Gastland; Perzeption; Meinung/Einstellung
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
City
Frankfurt am Main
Page/Pages
33 p.
Series
PRIF Reports, 3/2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48809/prifrep2303
ISBN
978-3-946459-87-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed