MULTI-FACETED MEDIATION IN THE GUINEA-BISSAU CIVIL WAR

dc.creator	Simon Massey
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:51Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:51Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/32-1-129
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8ef6e44a535c406b99f3790e50d56575
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8529
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/8ef6e44a535c406b99f3790e50d56575
dc.description	<p>An exchange of gunfire in Bissau city between soldiers loyal to President and mutinous troops supporting the recently dismissed army chief of staff Brigadier Ansumane Mané in the early morning of 7 June 1998 heralded the start of 11 months of civil conflict. ‘It was not a huge war’, the Economist noted, ‘but for the 1m people…of Guinea-Bissau, it was devastating…Hundreds of people were killed, the city was destroyed and hundreds of thousands fled into the countryside’. The primary reason for the fighting - irrevocable splits within the government and leading Partido Africano da Independencia da Guiné-Bissau e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) - sat amidst a web of geopolitical machinations and posturing.</p><p>Guinea-Bissau became the locus for mediation based, for a large part, on political opportunism. These efforts resulted in a peace operation with ostensible humanitarian motives which, nonetheless, was also marked by strong political impulses. As William Zartman has remarked, ‘Africa does not lack mediators’. In the case of the war in Bissau the gamut of potential intermediaries – regional, African and extra-African – offered assistance. This confusion of good offices led to rival mediation efforts whose polarisation mirrored that on the battlefield.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/129
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 32, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	Brigadier Ansumane Mané
dc.subject	exchange of gunfire in Bissau city
dc.subject	soldiers loyal to President
dc.subject	Partido Africano da Independencia da Guiné-Bissau e Cabo Verde
dc.subject	irrevocable splits within the government
dc.subject	GUINEA-BISSAU CIVIL WAR
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	MULTI-FACETED MEDIATION IN THE GUINEA-BISSAU CIVIL WAR
dc.type	Article