Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

In the past twenty years the people of the African continent have experienced human suffering on a scale unparalleled in human history. For the past decade I have examined and documented the evolution of Africa's peacekeeping, peace enforcement, regional collective security, and conflict management landscape as well as Africa's contribution to international law, particularly as it relates to the jus ad bellum, "the law of the use of force". Although an abundance of scholarly work and official studies have examined the complexities of humanitarian intervention, only a select body of credible work has considered the phenomenon of pro-democratic intervention (PDI)--very little of which has made mention of Africa. This Article offers a conceptual framework to locate PDI in international law. It is limited to the identification of PDI as an emerging norm of international law deeply rooted in the African experience.

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