Peace & Security Council Report

The May 2015 issue of the Peace & Security Council Report examines the African Union's (AU) efforts to integrate women into the security sector, the doctrinal and financial tensions in the AU-UN peacekeeping partnership, the instability and humanitarian crisis in Libya, and the lessons learned from the AU's first mission to counter the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

• The African Union is prioritizing women's empowerment and gender parity in the security sector as part of its 2015 theme and Agenda 2063. Despite frameworks like the AU Framework on SSR, implementation by member states remains a challenge, and only 12 national governments have implemented action plans for SSR with a strong gender component.
• There is a significant doctrinal gap between the UN and the AU regarding peace operations. The AU deploys troops even when there is no peace to keep, whereas UN doctrine generally bars deployment in such scenarios. The AU is seeking a reform of UN doctrine on the use of force and consent to better match current asymmetric and hybrid security challenges.
• The AU-UN peacekeeping partnership is strained by the issue of financing AU-led and UN-authorised operations. The AU advocates for a burden-sharing model, citing the UN Support Operation to AMISOM (UNSOA) as an optimal example of providing predictable and sustainable logistical support through UN-assessed contributions.
• Libya is described as a failed state characterized by rival governments, uncontrolled militias, and the expansion of ISIS. The country has become a major transit point for migrants crossing to Europe, with April 2015 seeing approximately 1,300 migrant deaths in three incidents within less than two weeks.
• The AU's mission to counter the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA) was the first operation of its kind for the organization. Key lessons included the identification of severe weaknesses in the health systems of post-conflict Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the need for an African centre for the prevention and control of diseases to enable swift detection and reaction.

APA

Institute for Security Studies (2015). Peace & Security Council Report. https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/PSC69May_EngV2.pdf

Chicago

Institute for Security Studies. Peace & Security Council Report. 2015. https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/PSC69May_EngV2.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{instituteforsecuritystudies2015peace, author = {{Institute for Security Studies}}, title = {{Peace \& Security Council Report}}, institution = {Institute for Security Studies}, year = {2015}, month = may, url = {https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/PSC69May_EngV2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }