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Title:ECOWAS and regional peacekeeping integration in West Africa: lessons for the future
Author:Arthur, PeterISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Africa Today (ISSN 1527-1978)
Volume:57
Issue:2
Pages:3-24
Language:English
Geographic terms:Liberia
Sierra Leone
Subjects:African peacekeeping forces
peacekeeping operations
civil wars
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v057/57.2.arthur.pdf
Abstract:During the 1990s, West Africa was ravaged by conflicts that required ECOWAS to intervene by sending a regional military force, ECOMOG, to Liberia and Sierra Leone. This paper analyses the lessons learned from ECOWAS' 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. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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