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Orphan of the Cold War: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process, 1992–93

By Margaret Joan Anstee (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1996
ISBN
978-0-333-66446-9, 978-0-230-37673-1
DOI
10.1057/9780230376731
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
107 MB (112048693 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
596\581
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
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Description

This is the personal story of Dame Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Angola and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission there from February 1992 to June 1993. Formerly a colony of Portugal, Angola was awarded independence following the democratization of Portugal in 1975. After independence, disagreement emerged between Angola's main ethno-political groups which resulted in one of the most bloody civil wars the world has known. The author, the first woman to head a peacekeeping mission, intersperses personal experiences with events as they unfold, describing the horrendous sufferings of the Angolan people and analyses the reasons for the collapse of the process and the lessons for UN peacekeeping generally.

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