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This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The contributors discuss complex socio-political and economic issues and use a cross disciplinary approach to treat most of the dominant research questions in the field. The chapters come nicely together in a kaleidoscope of knowledge deriving from scholarly investigative traditions in political science, anthropology, economics, law, and sociology. The book is conceived as a source of reference and for graduate courses in African politics, development, human rights, transnational law, and international public policy.
List of contents
1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Preventive Diplomacy in Theory and Practice.- 2. Chapter 2: ECOWAS and Preventive Diplomacy in West Africa.- 3. Chapter 3: Youth Bulge and West Africa: Understanding Dispute Triggers and Conflict Prevention.- 4. Chapter 4: Militant Psyche and Separatism: A Note On the Casamance Conflict and Necessity of Preventive Intervention.- 5. Chapter 5: Women's War-time Struggle for Peace and Security in the Mano River Union.- 6. Chapter 6: Making and Enforcing Peace through Mediation and Fire Power: A Retrospective on the Liberia Experience.- 7. Chapter 7: About God and Violence in West Africa! Can Religious Organisations Foster Peace?.- 8. Chapter 8: Rwanda and North Macedonia: Considering the Nature of Conflict and UN Peacemaking.- 9. Chapter 9: Epilogue: Arbitrariness and Conflict: The Context of Preventive Diplomacy in West Africa.
About the author
Okon Akiba is International and Comparative Politics Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada.
