(list of insurgent movements), bibliogr., notes, ref. The author argues that the threat of regional instability by proxy conflict remains, as long as the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes are unwilling to make real peace with each other. The experience of tenuous negotiation during the past two years seems to indicate otherwise. Since the peace agreement of June 2000, the importance and impact of the proxy war factor has declined somewhat, but whether this decline will contribute to the building of a 'lasting peace' is not at all certain.

The proxy war strategy was pursued by both players in the 1998-2000 border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, not only in the enemy country but also in neighbouring States. In the Horn of Africa, the proxy war phenomenon is visible owing to alliances behind the scenes, the involvement of neighbouring countries, and frequent changes of allegiance. secondary, often 'low intensity' armed conflicts, pursued in the context of a major power struggle, or outright wars between States carried out by subsidiary or co-opted insurgent movements, usually of an ethno-regional nature. When it comes to the conflicts in the Horn of Africa one can identify intricate but open religious and interest based conflict in the Sudan a mixture of value. Many inter-State and intra-State conflicts in Africa become more complex by being extended into 'proxy wars', i.e. Ethiopia-Eritrea: proxy wars and prospects of peace in the Horn of AfricaĪfrica, civil wars, Country, Eritrea, Ethiopia, international politics, peace

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