Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword Meeting the Demand for Intervention: The Promise of African Security Architecture -- 1 African Solutions for African Problems and Shared R2P -- 2 Through the Lens of European Integration Theory: African Peace and Security Architecture as a Framework in Transition -- 3 Hopes and Challenges for the Peace and Security Architecture of the African Union -- 4 From the Multilateralism of States to the Multilateralism of Peoples: The Roles of the African Union and the United Nations in Supporting Security Sector Reform -- 5 The European Union (EU) and the Emerging African Peace and Security Architecture -- 6 R2P and the IGAD Sub-region: IGAD's Contribution to Africa's Emerging R2P-oriented Security Culture -- 7 Complementary Approaches to Peacekeeping? The African Union and United Nations in Burundi -- 8 Partnerships for Peacebuilding in Burundi: Some Lessons Learned -- 9 The DDRR and SSR Process in Liberia: Prospects and Challenges -- 10 The Darfur Conflict and the Responsibility to Protect: Towards a Sustainable Peace -- 11 Steady but Uneven Progress: The Operationalization of the African Standby Force -- 12 A 'Public' Duty? Building Citizen Focused Accountability and Oversight Mechanisms in Global Peace -- Index.