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Preventive Diplomacy, Security, and Human Rights in West Africa

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Editors:
  1. Okon Akiba

    1. International and Comparative Politics Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada

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  • Develops research on development and conflict prevention in West Africa

  • Contains contributions from scholars, leaders in civil society, independent peace consultants, social science researchers serving as policy experts, and advisers in major regional organizations

  • Presents a comprehensive overview of development, security, activism, politics, and conflict in West Africa

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction: Preventive Diplomacy in Theory and Practice

    • Okon Akiba
    Pages 1-43

  3. ECOWAS and Preventive Diplomacy in West Africa

    • Babatunde Afolabi
    Pages 45-75

  4. Youth Bulge and West Africa: Understanding Dispute Triggers and Conflict Prevention

    • Augustine Ikelegbe
    Pages 77-105

  5. Militant Psyche and Separatism: A Note on the Casamance Conflict and Necessity of Preventive Intervention

    • Okon Akiba
    Pages 107-151

  6. Women’s Wartime Struggle for Peace and Security in the Mano River Union

    • Oumar Ndongo
    Pages 153-174

  7. Making and Enforcing Peace Through Mediation and Fire Power: A Retrospective on the Liberia Experience

    • Okon Akiba
    Pages 175-214

  8. About God and Violence in West Africa! Can Religious Organizations Foster Peace?

    • Charles Abiodun Alao, Ronke Ako Nai
    Pages 215-253

  9. Rwanda and North Macedonia: Considering the Nature of Conflict and UN Peacemaking

    • Abdul Mumin Sa’ad
    Pages 255-291

  10. Epilogue: Arbitrariness and Conflict—The Context of Preventive Diplomacy in West Africa

    • Okon Akiba
    Pages 293-335

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 337-357
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About this book

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.   


Editors and Affiliations

  • International and Comparative Politics Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada

    Okon Akiba

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Okon Akiba is International and Comparative Politics Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada.

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