Regional security cooperation in Central Africa: what perspectives after ten years of peace and security operations?

This chapter assesses and analyzes the evolution of regional peace and security cooperation in Central Africa over the last ten years. The central focus is on the major problems challenging the effectiveness and efficiency of cooperation and its implementation. The first section provides an overview of the evolving role of ECCAS for Central African peace and security. A second section analyzes more precisely the regional operations of FOMUC and MICOPAX, deployed for a decade in the CAR as a regional response to rising insecurity and instability. A third section, finally, discusses the major challenges that affect the realization and effectiveness of the Central African regional approach to peace and security.