Linnéa Gelot is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Sweden. Her most recent publication is The Future of African Peace Operations: From Janjaweed to Boko Haram, co-edited with Cedric de Coning and John Karlsrud, with Zed Books, March 2016. She is currently leading a research project entitled ‘AU Waging Peace? Explaining the Militarization of the African Peace and Security Architecture’.