Bővebb leírás
The author of this book has served in a number of peacekeeping operations in Western Sahara, Darfur and Afghanistan, therefore, has gathered invaluable practical experience about such missions. As UN military staff, part of MINURSO in 2003-2004, János Besenyő started to narrowly deal with the history of Western Sahara, the traditions and daily practices of the inhabitants of the area, the activities of the peacekeeping force of the world organisation, in particular with the root-causes of the Saharan conflict and their possible solutions.
As doctoral student of Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, János Besenyő has led extensive research on peacekeeping in Africa, with special focus on the Western-Saharan question, child soldiers and DDR programmes. In these topics he published numerous articles in leading Hungarian journals, such as Új Honvédségi Szemle, Szakmai Szemle, Felderítő Szemle, AARMS, ZMNE Egyetemi Fórum, Seregszemle, Afrika Tanulmányok, Földgömb, etc.
In this book János Besenyő introduces the readers the causes and escalation of the conflict in Western Sahara, the actors and the opposing parties together with their motivations, thus, he fills in a gap connected with this less-known part and problem of our ever globalising world.