Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Sahel: The Tuareg Insurgency in Mali
Abstract
The world has discovered that the hatreds behind ethnic conflicts often are very difficult to suppress--and even harder to dissipate. It also has discovered that military interventions alone rarely attenuate the underlying problems that provoked the violence. In this monograph, the author discusses the 1990 Second Tuareg Rebellion in Mali. He analyzes the problems resulting from harsh coercive measures used by the post-colonial Malian government in 1963, in suppressing the first Tuareg rebellion, which led to the second uprising. Typically, hatreds embedded in ethnic history are solved with extreme violence. However, this conflict was resolved without a bloodbath and without a halt to ongoing process of political reform. The author describes the nature of the Malian solution and indicates reasons for its success.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA349121
Entities
People
- Kalifa Keita
Organizations
- United States Army War College