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

by M. Anstee

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333664469
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/20/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	566
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARGARET JOAN ANSTEE

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations - Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Dramatis Personae - PART 1: THE CONTEXT: PERSONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL - A Late-Night Telephone Call - The Background - First Mission to Angola - A 'Small and Manageable' Operation ... or making Bricks without Straw - PART 2: THE MILITARY AND SECURITY SITUATION: FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1992 - The Military Conundrum - The Formation of the New Angolan Armed Forces - The Police Imbroglio - Alarms and Excursions - PART 3: THE PREPARATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE ELECTIONS MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1992 - The Prelude: March to May 1992 - The Registration of Voters and the Electoral Campaign - Politics, Pride and Personalities - PART 4: DAY TO DAY LIVING - Life in Luanda - Vignettes from the Field - PART 5: THE ELECTIONS AND THEIR AFTERMATH - The Moment of Truth - The Aftermath - The Debacle - PART 6: OVER THE BRINK - The Bloodbath - The Slide into the Abyss - Cry Havoc - PART 7: CONFLAGRATION AND MEDIATION - ... And Let Slip the Dogs of War - Peace Talks in Ethiopia - From Addis Ababa to Abidjan - The Abidjan Marathon - PART 8: MY FAREWELL TO ARMS - Going the Last Mile ... and the End of the Road - Lessons of the Forgotten Tragedy of Angola - Epilogue

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