Responsibility to protect and the African union’s peace and security architecture: A case study of Libya.
| dc.contributor.author | Bagigah, Widad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-14T10:51:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-14T10:51:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-11 | |
| dc.description | This Thesis/ Dissertation Is Submitted In Partial Fulfilment Of The Requirement For The Award Of Master Of Laws Degree. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The African Union as a regional organization has enshrined the principle of responsibility to protect in its Constitutive Act through Article 4(h). This article enables the African Union to intervene into the affairs of member states in order to prevent the violation of human rights. The Ezulwini consensus further supports article 4(h). The African Peace and Security Architecture was established to assist the Africa Union in its implementation of article 4(h) and to help maintain peace in the continent. However, during the 2011 Libyan Civil war, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization intervened in the Libyan crisis and sidelined the African Union. This article seeks to assess the effectiveness of the African Peace and Security Architecture and the challenges that the African Union faced in excising it responsibility to protect during the Libyan crisis. The study established that the African Union intervention was not effective which therefore brought about the involvement of NATO in Libya during the crisis in that country. The reasons for The African Unions ineffectiveness include the lack of capacity in terms of human resource and logistical needs, lack of political will on the part of African States to interfere in Gadaffi‟s affairs, lack of agreement among African states on how to approach and deal with the crisis in Libya. This study has implications for the African Union as a continental body and its member states in that they have to do all that is necessary to make Article 4(h) if its constitutive Act implementable in order to protect the human rights of citizens in times of grave circumstances. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KNUST | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/16879 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | KNUST | |
| dc.title | Responsibility to protect and the African union’s peace and security architecture: A case study of Libya. | |
| dc.type | Thesis |