When the United Nations (UN) started to deploy peace operations around the world in 1948, Africa became the main continent to receive international military support. Since that time, the institution have authorized 69 peace operations. From this total, 31 of them – divided into 22 past and 9 current missions – were designed only to Africa. Even those operations were and still are located in volatile armed conflict countries, the permanent UN presence on the continent emphasize that peace is still a hegemonic concept which perpetuate an international order. Based on a Critical Theory applied to peace operations, such reality suggests that those operations sustain not only the status quo, but privileges the rich and powerful states in their efforts to control or isolate unruly parts of the world. Embedded on this prerogative, the hegemonic concept of peace is the same that marginalizes its African version, creating as well as an academic cleavage of searching the concept as its incorporation into peace practices.
