ВЗГЛЯД ЗАРУБЕЖНОГО ЭКСПЕРТА AU-HYBRID PEACEKEEPING MISSION: BUILDING PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIPS Stephen Osaherumwen IDAHOSA (Nigeria) Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Keywords: AU-hybrid mission, UN, peacekeeping, CSTO, conflict, peace-building, Russia In a report provided by Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID)1 in 2016, there have been over 12 million refugees and internally displaced persons from conflicts in Africa. <...> Hundreds and thousands of people have been slaughtered from a number of conflicts and civil wars. <...> Over the years there have been series of conflicts, both intrastate conflicts (Algeria, Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara, and the Republic of Congo) and interstate (Chad/Libya)2. <...> The development of African peace operations was informed by the weaknesses of UN responses in Africa, which were visible in cases such as Rwanda in 1994, when the UN hopelessly failed to maintain peace and prevent genocide. <...> These institutional and system-wide failures spurred African-led initiatives to deliver security. <...> The most prominent recent examples are the United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)4, African Union Mission in Burundi, African Union Mission to Somalia, African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA)5. <...> It is however the intent of this paper to not just analyze the cooperation, it therefore suggests a better and additional regional cooperation with Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and others in ensuring a better and effective Peacekeeping operation in Africa. <...> According to Diego Salama in his United Nations University (Maastricht University) publication and Danielle Renwick of the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S., a hybrid mission is a joint effort where a regional organization - in this case, the African Union (AU) - shares the political, financial, logistical and military burdens with the UN, CSTO or other major strong organization6. <...> In hybrid missions the partners are theoretically equals and align their agendas to achieve the mandate. <...> There is a single political representative and a single military commander. 38 АЗИЯ И АФРИКА сегодня№4 ● 2017 The AU, created by the Constitutive Act of 20007, is equipped <...>