世纪之交对非洲局部冲突的再认识

Reassessing the Local Conflicts in Africa at the Turn of the Century

世纪之交，非洲局部冲突的持续与经济全球化的迅猛发展及非洲多数国家谋和平、求发展的潮流极不和谐，引起国际社会日益广泛的关注。近几年非洲的冲突出现一些新变化和新特点，冲突之所以持续不断，部族、种族矛盾以及对资源、利益的争夺及联合国维和干预不力等是主要原因，而贫困化又是非洲战乱更深刻的根源。新世纪到来之际，非洲国家加大了解决冲突的力度，但局部冲突尚不能彻底解决。总体缓和与局部动荡并存仍是新世纪初非洲形势的基本特征。

Protracted local conflicts in Africa sharply contrast the fast growing economic globalization and trends of most African states' aspiring for peace and development, arousing increasingly wide ranging concerns from the international community. The recent years have seen some new changes and features of conflicts in Africa. Protracted conflicts were mainly attributed to tribal and racial contradictions, competition for resources and interests, and the ineffective UN peacekeeping operations. But the root cause of African conflicts is poverty in Africa. As the turn of the century, African states have doubled their efforts to solve conflicts, but local conflicts will remain. At the beginning of the new century, Africa will continue to be plagued with the basic feature of cohabitation of relaxation of general situation and partial turmoil.