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If the conflict in the Middle East is to be settled peacefully, it will be necessary to find a reasonable solution to the Palestinian situation. Sovereign control over Palestine was at the crux of the conflict from 1917-1948. From 1948, the dispute came to be seen as a conflict between Israel & the Arab states, a conflict that is compounded by the marginalization of Palestinian Arabs in Middle East diplomacy. It was not until 1993 that the Palestinian search for self-determination was recognized as an essential component of peace, & it was not until 2000, at Camp David II, that the creation of a Palestinian state was seriously considered. Though Camp David II proved unsuccessful, its attempts at reconciling Arabs & Israelis started the international community on the path toward a multilateral, global solution to the Middle East conflict. K. Larsen

This handbook offers an up-to-date analysis of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing the AU and RECs? efforts in achieving a Pax Africana; and the role of external actors including the United Nations (UN) and former colonial powers Britain and France, but also key (non-African) troop contributing countries in these efforts. Building on the late Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui?s concept of Pax Africana - Africans taking responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security on their own continent - the authors argue that the transformation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) into the AU in 2002, was a concrete step towards the realisation of an African-wrought vision of continental peace and prosperity, and has since witnessed the creation of a set of institutions - together known as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) - for more robust conflict management