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JUSTIFIED ACCORD 2017

Italy, U.S. Army personnel, African partners, other Allies and international organizations conducted
the Exercise JA17 on 20-24 March 2017 in Addis Ababa at the Peace Support Training Center.
AMISOM troop/Police Contributing Countries (such as for example Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya,
Somalia, Uganda), Allied nations (such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy) and other
International Actors (for example AU, Int’l Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), COESPU) took

Participants in the “Justified Accord 2017” Exercise - Addis Ababa
part in the JA17.
The aim of this initiative
was to bring together
U.S. Army personnel,
African partners, allies
and international
organizations to talk
about peacekeeping
operations and
interoperability among
participating nations for
peacekeeping operations
in the East Africa region
but also to talk about the
incoming challenges in
Somalia related to a
transitional phase to a
U.S. Army personnel and African partners
Somali-led mission.
JA17, an operational – level Table Top exercise (TTX), was organized in two stages following an
active methodology; a first phase with preparatory academics followed by a second phase of
mentor-led vignette-based discussions. During the vignette phase, participants were divided into

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