This research project focuses on the evaluation of several past UN peacekeeping operations derived during the 1990s, which were launched with the intent to help alleviate civil conflicts within tribally diverse, newly independent, or failed African states. A comparison case study of these UN peacekeeping operations is completed in regards several important identified variables, including: the nature of the conflict and corresponding mandate, the amount of resources contributed by the organizing agency, the timing of operation initialization, and the presence, or lack there of, of consent from the warring parties and compliance from third party actors. This study attempts to identify significant relationships between the above-mentioned variables and the success of the peacekeeping operations, in attempt to answer the following questions: Are attributes of African civil conflicts, and the contexts in which they occur, amenable to current UN intervention strategies? And, if not, how can UN intervention strategies be improved to more effectively address the nature of African civil conflicts and the contexts in which they occur?