Ecowas and Regional Peacekeeping Integration in West Africa

Lessons for the Future

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3750443
AutoresPeter Arthur (0000-0003-0777-7798, autor de correspondencia), Arthur, Arthur Arthur (autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen57
Número2
Páginas2-24
Fecha de publicación2010-12-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
EditorialIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/africatoday.2010.57.2.2
OpenAlexW2067476025, W3142910621
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas22

During the 1990s, West Africa was ravaged by conflicts that required ECOWAS to intervene by sending a regional military force, ECOMOG, into Liberia and Sierra Leone. This paper analyzes the lessons learned from ECOWAS’s military intervention in Liberia and Sierra Leone. It argues that, while ECOMOG faced daunting challenges—disagreements among ECOWAS member states, financial constraints, equipment and logistical problems—key lessons were learned that subsequently shaped the military and diplomatic interventions by ECOWAS in Côte D’Ivoire in 2003 and Togo in 2005, respectively. ECOWAS learned that the impartiality of an intervention force and leaders’ political will to intervene through financial and logistical support may be crucial to averting similar crises in the subregion

Development economics · Economics · Geography · Peacekeeping · Political science · Regional Integration · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration

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