The Africanization of peacekeeping since 1960:

Is the Africanization of peacekeeping capable of meeting the challenges of security, despite the hierarchical positions of its players? This article attempts to answer this question through a study of reflexive sociology. It appears that the Africanization of peacekeeping is no accident of history. It is the product of a historical and conjunctural process of routinization and bricolage in the practice of peacekeeping in Africa since the early years of independence. As a routinized socio-historical process, the Africanization of peacekeeping is part of a concrete institutional cross-fertilization that makes its formation the product of both endogenous African and exogenous dynamics imported into the practice of peacekeeping in Africa. The Africanization of peacekeeping can thus be seen as the product of a hybridization process. It lies halfway between African and therefore autonomous logics of peacekeeping experimentation, but is no less part of the global collective security system.