ABSTRACT
African conflict diplomacy has overcome some enormous problems. It has essentially eliminated border, secessionist, and territorial conflicts, classified as the major sources of interstate wars. A good example of subsidiarity in action has been the mediation of the Central African conflict in 2013, where ECCAS, the EU, the AU, and the UN were all involved in the jostling. African conflict diplomacy concerns above all internal or intrastate conflicts, although most intrastate conflicts rapidly acquire an interstate dimension. The Casamance conflict is a case of calls for decolonization of an isolated enclave from domination by elites and policies from the capital. Abdoulaye Wade defeated Diouf in 2000, and although ceasefires were produced with the MFDC, the government considered conflict management to be the same as conflict. The Western Saharan conflict is the last major case of decolonization in Africa, where a nationalist guerrilla movement operating out of neighboring Algeria has contested the integration of the former Spanish colony into Morocco.
