UNDERGRADUATE THE THESIS AFRICAN UNION INTERVENTION TO LIBYA (2011-2015)
Abstract
The relation between Libya and Sub Sahara Africa has
been complex during Muammar Gaddafi‘s era and
culminate in 2011. On February 2011, civilians began to
have a demonstration demanding an end to the leader of
Libya at that time, Muammar Gaddafi in his 41 years
term of government, wherein that demonstration a lot of
victims became a target of mass atrocities of government
armed forces. The intervention of African Union toward
Libya crisis 2011 will be the main discussion in this
thesis. Violence by the Libyan government got the
attention from international communities. International
and regional organization have a responsibility to protect
people in Libya from violence through political,
economic, and military matters, including African Union
as the regional organizations. In 2011, African Union
was legally mandated for an intervention in Libya crisis,
to protect people from war crimes, genocide, and crime
against humanity. This thesis has the aim to describe and
analyze the African Union Response to Libya Crisis in
2011. Moreover, the method of data collection in this
thesis will use qualitative data and relied on what African
Union did in form of missions, and the African Union‘s
action toward Libya crisis 2011, looking for the solution
of African Union in form of peacekeeping mission
toward Libya crisis and concludes by providing the
suggestion and recommendation for African Union in
strengthening their peace and security mission for the
future African crisis, in the case of Libyan in 2011.