TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Intervention in Mali: building peace between peacekeeping and counterterrorism
JO  - Journal of contemporary African studies
A1  - Charbonneau, Bruno
SP  - 415
EP  - 431
VL  - 35
IS  - 4
N2  - This article examines the effects of UN peacekeeping and international counterterrorism operations upon the possibilities of peace in Mali. Following the January 2013 French operation Serval, the international intervention was divided between two military missions: UN peacekeeping in Mali and French-led counterterrorism. The article explores what it means to distinguish between peacekeeping and counterterrorism for international conflict management and Malian conflict resolution dynamics. It is argued that the binaries of war and peace, and of intervention and sovereignty, are no longer opposites, but blurred into an emerging 'new normal' of permanent military intervention. The construction of a regional counterterrorism governance or militarisation is shown to circumvent the fundamental questions about Malian peace, state sovereignty, and nationhood. The article points to how the international 'division of labour' between peacekeeping and counterterrorism defines the possibilities of peace in Mali in relation to the perceived necessities of the 'global war on terror'.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0258-9001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2017.1363383
ID  - ref1
ER  -