A atuação da União Africana no gerenciamento dos conflitos no continente: no Burundi e Somália

Abstract

Since the first independence of Africa's countries in 1960, the continent went through several tensions, because of that, the African States sought alternatives to resolve these conflicts and overcome their external and internal disputes in order to guarantee stability and growth for these new countries. For that to become reality they created an organization seeking solutions for the continent problems and in 1963, the Organization of African Unity (OUA) was created, nonetheless with changes in the international system and their difficulties to guarantee safety a new organization was created, the African Union (AU) in 2002, this new organization had also a new vision to how to deal with the conflicts and created the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), the APSA, together with the ASF, the APF, the CEWS,the PSC, and the POW, was a importante instrument on the Union’s missions. In order to understand the the African Union operations, it was used in the study a qualitative methodology, and the works focus on two of the Unions missions, theAfrican Union Mission in Burundi (AMIB) in 2003, and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in 2007, in Somalia’s case, the Union still have an active mission in the country till the present day, but now it’s a transition mission.