Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab.00The book's two parts provide a history of the mission from its genesis in an earlier, failed regional initiative in 2005 up to mid-2017, as well as an analysis of the mission's six most important challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond.

Introduction -- Part 1 : History. 1. Genesis : October 2004 - March 2007 -- 2. Entry : March 2007 - January 2009 -- 3. Stalemate : January 2009 - August 2010 -- 4. Offensive : September 2010 - October 2011 -- 5. Expansion : October 2011 - September 2012 -- 6. Consolidation : September 2012 - December 2013 -- 7. Surge : January 2014 - May 2017 -- Part 2 : Challenges. 8. Logistics -- 9. Security Sector Reform -- 10. Civilian Protection -- 11. Strategic Communications -- 12. Stabilization -- 13. Exit -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : A note on major Somali non-state armed groups -- Appendix B : AMISOM's senior leadership, March 2007-August 2017 -- Appendix C : A note on AMISOM fatality estimates