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Orphan of the Cold War

The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process, 1992-93

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  • © 1996

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  1. Margaret Joan Anstee
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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Context: Personal, National and International

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Late Night Telephone Call

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 3-6

    3. The Background

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 7-14

    4. First Mission to Angola

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 15-29

    5. ‘A Small and Manageable Operation’, or Making Bricks without Straw

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 30-44

  3. The Military and Security Situation — February to September 1992

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Military Conundrum

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 47-61

    3. The Formation of the New Angolan Armed Forces

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 64-68

    4. The Police Imbroglio

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 69-77

    5. Alarms and Excursions

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 78-84

  4. The Preparation and Organisation of the Elections — March to September 1992

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. The Prelude: March to May 1992

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 87-98

    3. The Registration of Voters and the Electoral Campaign

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 99-126

    4. Politics, Pride and Personalities

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 127-157

  5. Day to Day Living

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Life in Luanda

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 161-172

    3. Vignettes from the Field

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 173-183

  6. The Elections and their Aftermath

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. The Moment of Truth

      • Margaret Joan Anstee
      Pages 187-198
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This is the personal story of Dame Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Angola and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission there from February 1992 to June 1993. Formerly a colony of Portugal, Angola was awarded independence following the democratization of Portugal in 1975. After independence, disagreement emerged between Angola's main ethno-political groups which resulted in one of the most bloody civil wars the world has known. The author, the first woman to head a peacekeeping mission, intersperses personal experiences with events as they unfold, describing the horrendous sufferings of the Angolan people and analyses the reasons for the collapse of the process and the lessons for UN peacekeeping generally.

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Vintage Gorz - stimulating in its insight and rich in its documentation.' - Guardian As unemployment rises, the struggle, Gorz insists, is not for the 'Right to Work' but for an income regardless of work, for the sharing of the reduced amount of necessary social labour, above all for the primacy of autonomous, self-determined activity. And it is a struggle, he claims, that is already taking place. - New Statesman

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MARGARET JOAN ANSTEE

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