ECOWAS and Regional Peacekeeping Integration in West Africa: Lessons for the Future.

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...

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Published in:	Africa Today Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 3 - 25
Main Author:	Arthur, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Indiana University Press Winter 2010
Subjects:	Economic Community of West African States International cooperation on peace Intervention (International law) Political violence West Africa
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