Glossary of Terms


Published in Monograph No 33: Constructive Disengagement, December 1998


ACRF African Crisis Response Force

ACRI African Crisis Response Initiative

ACSS African Centre for Security Studies

AMU Arab Maghreb Union

ANAD Accord de non-aggression et d’assistance en matière de défense (Treaty of Non-Aggression, Assistance and Mutual Defence)

BALTBAT Baltic Peacekeeping Battalion

BMATT British Military Advisory and Training Team

BMLO British Military Liaison Officer

CAR Central African Republic

DRC Democratic Republic of Congo

EAC Commission for East African Co-operation

ECCAS Economic Community of Central African States

ECOMOG ECOWAS Cease-fire Monitoring Group

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States

E-IMET Expanded International Military Education and Training

EIPC Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities

FTX field training exercise

IGAD Inter-Governmental Authority on Development

IMET International Military Education and Training

ISDSC Inter-State Defence and Security Committee

JCET Joint/Combined Exchange Training

MEDFLAG Medical Conflagration

MINURCA United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic

MISAB Mission interafricaine de surveillance des accords de Bangui (Inter-African Mission to Monitor the Implementation of the Bangui Agreements)

NACC North Atlantic Co-ordination Council

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

NMOG Neutral Military Observer Group

OAU Organisation of African Unity

OMIB Observer Mission in Burundi

RECAMP Renforcement des capacités africaines de maintien de la paix

SADC Southern African Development Community

SHIRBRIG Stand-by High Readiness Brigade

ST Sustainment Training

STTT Short-Term Training Team

UNAVEM United Nations Angola Verification Mission