Strategic Options for the Future of African Peace Operations 2015-2025
With the ASF due to achieve FOC in 2015, the question is how the ASF will be utilized in future, and more generally, the future direction ASF and African peace operations? The independent panel of experts appointed by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission in 2013 to review the progress made by the ASF towards achieving FOC by 2015 held that the existing ASF Policy Framework should be reviewed, and be aligned with the realities of the African peace operation experience. With the ASF due to achieve full operational capability in 2015, the AU could benefit from a strategic review of African peace operations. That could enable it to prepare for the next decade on the basis of a shared strategic vision for ASF operations that is relevant to the current and near-future context, and adjusted to the strategic objectives of the AU’s Vision 2063 and Silencing the Guns.
This report is an outcome of a seminar co-hosted by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Training for Peace programme in Cape Town, 17–18 December 2014.