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ECOMOG and West African Regional Security: A Nigerian Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Gani J. Yoroms
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For the first time in the history of Africa, a regional conflict, such as that in Liberia, has succeeded in producing an indigenous regional mechanism for conflict management. The conflict may not yet be resolved, but its management demands an in-depth understanding. This attempts an interpretation of the Liberian crisis from Nigeria’s perspective.

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FOCUS: Toward a New African Political Order: African Perspectives on Democratization Processes, Regional Conflict Management
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African Issues , Volume 21 , Issue 1-2 , 1993 , pp. 84 - 91
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1993

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Notes

1. Pelcovits, Nathan, “Peace Keeping: The African Experience,” in Wiseman, Henry, ed., Peace Keeping; Appraisals and Proposals, New York., Pergamon Press, 1983, p. 265 Google Scholar.

2. Ibrahim A. Gambari, “Concepts and Conceptualization in Nigerian Foreign Policy-Making Since Independence,” Nigerian Journal of Policy and Strategy, June 1986, p. 75.

3. Ibid., pp. 76-77.

4. Ibid., also Gani J. Yoroms, “Regional Security, Collective Defense and the Problem of Peace Initiatives in West Africa: The Case of ECOMOG in Liberian Conflict,” Paper presented at the seventeenth Annual Conference of the Nigerian Society of International Affairs, at the Center for Democratic Studies, Abuja, December 9-12, 1991.

5. Yoroms, op. cit.

6. Ibid., pp. 15-16.

7. Sessay, Amadu, “Societal Inequalities, Ethnic Heterogeneity and Political Instability: The Case of Liberia,” Plural Societies, vol. 2, no. 3, Autumn 1980 Google Scholar.

8. Vogt, Margaret, “Nigeria’s Perspective in the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG),” Nigerian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 17, no. l, 1991 Google Scholar.

9. West Africa, London, October 29-November 4, 1990.

10. The Guardian, Lagos, May 7, 1991.

11. Africa Confidential, vol. 33, no. 2, January 24, 1992.