Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau.(Book Review)

From: African Studies Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. Adekeye Adebajo. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. 192 pp.

In this occasional paper for the International Peace Academy, Adekeye Adebajo takes a look at the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the attempts to build peace in the internal conflicts of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. His aim is to come to an evaluation of the military interventions in the said three cases and the ECOWAS security system in general. Adebajo, who is the director of the Africa ...

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