Management of Interface Conflicts in African Security Governance

全球治理中的安全问题是由不同的权力范围和多个政治行为体在不同层面上的互动所决定的。从法律上讲，联合国安理会（UNSC）拥有决定使用武力的最高政治权力。然而，在联合国（SC）和各种地区（安全）组织中，成员国的重叠增加了在几个权力领域之间和内部发生规范冲突的可能性。非洲联盟就是这样一个区域性组织，它成立于2002年，是非洲统一组织的继承者，它已经确立了自己作为一个重要的集体安全提供者的地位。许多国内暴力冲突位于非洲联盟的地理范围内，在非洲发生了几次以人权准则为依据的军事干预。今天，非洲安全治理构成了一个由国际、区域、次区域和国家行动者相互作用的密集网络，而非洲联盟是这个网络中的区域关键行动者。在此配置接口中，可能会发生冲突。该项目分析了七个在非洲的军事任务作为界面冲突的案例，解决了以下问题：新兴非洲安全治理架构中的关键参与者如何在军事部署的背景下阐明和管理垂直界面冲突？这些行为者援引了哪些规范，如何解释对这些冲突的反应的多样性？不同形式的冲突管理的效果是什么？

Security issues in global governance are shaped by different spheres of authority and the interaction between multiple political actors on different levels. Legally, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has the supreme political authority to take decisions on the use of military force. However, overlapping memberships of states in the UN(SC) and in various regional (security) organizations enhance the potential for norm conflicts across and within several spheres of authority. One such regional organization is the African Union that was set up in 2002 as successor to the Organization of African Unity and that has established itself as a significant collective security provider. Many violent intra-state conflicts are located within the geographical sphere of the African Union and several military interventions justified with references to human rights norms take place in Africa. Today, African security governance constitutes a dense web of interactions between international, regional, sub-regional and national actors, with the African Union being the regional key actor in this web. In this configuration interface conflicts are likely to occur. The project analyzes seven cases of military missions in Africa as settings for interface conflicts, addressing the following questions: How do key actors within the emerging African security governance architecture articulate and manage vertical interface conflicts in the context of military deployments? Which norms do these actors invoke, and how can the variety in responses to such conflicts be explained? What are the effects of different forms of conflict management?