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%T "Siding with the people" or "Occupying force"? Local perceptions of African Union and ECOWAS interventions in the Gambia %A Birchinger, Sophia %A Jaw, Sait Matty %A Bah, Omar M. %A Witt, Antonia %P 33 %V 3/2023 %D 2023 %K Afrikanische internationale Organisation; Economic Community of West African States; Intervention; Friedenssicherungsfunktion internationaler Akteure; Beziehungen friedensichernder Organe mit dem Gastland; Perzeption; Meinung/Einstellung %@ 978-3-946459-87-3 %~ HSFK %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-89892-6 %X 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. %C DEU %C Frankfurt am Main %G en %9 Arbeitspapier %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info