PSOP Projects
The PSOP manages the Annual Review of African Peace Support Operations
This publication provides a critical understanding and explanation of existing and past PSOs across the continent. It analyses the background to the missions; their mandates and operations.
It is intended to inform sound policymaking and enable students of conflict and security studies to access information about these missions.
The Mission Watch Newsletter
is produced quarterly to provide relevant and current information about peacekeeping missions in Africa. It delivers concise information to policy-makers, academics, security services, civil society organisations and students of peace and security on issues of concern to missions in the region.
Civilian Working Group (CWG)
The PSOP also chairs the Civilian Working Group (CWG) of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF). The CWG aims to increase awareness of, and support for, the civilian component of ESF activities, including among ECOWAS member states. CWG comprises the National Defence College (NDC) Abuja, the Ecole de Maintien de la Paix (EMP) Mali and the KAIPTC.
Conflict Related Sexual Violence
The Conflict Related Sexual Violence project aims to draw the attention of policy-makers and security sector entities to sexual violence in conflicts. It helps build the capacity of senior security officials and regional policy makers in preventing CRSV in West Africa..
The Discord between Peacekeeping and Regional/International Policies on Countering Violent Extremism project
This project documents the challenges peacekeeping missions face countering violent extremism, the preparedness of the troop and police contributing countries to these tasks, vis-a-vis UN, ECOWAS and AU policies to these violent extremism in peacekeeping missions.
Sustainability of African Military project
The main objective of this project is to interrogate how peacekeeping has sustained the Ghana Armed Forces locally. Particular attention is paid to the impact of international peacekeeping on individual personnel of the GAF, how experiences from international peacekeeping has impacted on local peacekeeping efforts in conflict prone areas across the country and on Ghana’s national security, growing democracy and development..
Financing ECOWAS Peace Support Operations
The project on Financing ECOWAS Peace Support Operations assesses the implementation of the ECOWAS Peace Fund in the maintenance of peace and security in West Africa. It identifies challenges confronting the implementation of the EPF and examines the effects of the implementation of the EPF on the capacity development of the ESF both at the strategic and operational levels respectively.
Domestic Security Implications of UN Peacekeeping
This project examines the hypotheses that global peacekeeping participation results in the assembling of new practices, norms and discourses that shape the organization and provision of domestic security in public and private domains. It explores the correlation between peacekeeping participation and domestic security. The project is implemented by a consortium of Danish, KAIPTC and other Ghanaian research institutions.
Effectiveness of Peace Operations
Researching the Effectiveness of Peace Operations project looks at current definitions and conceptualizations of effectiveness, and discusses the varying perceptions stakeholders have of the effectiveness of peace operations. The aim of this project is to produce knowledge that is both academically valuable and relevant for policymakers. The project is implemented by a consortium of NUPI, KAIPTC and other research institutions.
The PSOP works through research, advocacy and development of training curricula.