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West Africa's trouble spots and the imperative for peace-building / Osita Agbu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agbu, Osita.
- Series:
- Monograph series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace-building--Africa, West.
- Peace-building.
- Conflict management--Africa, West.
- Conflict management.
- Social conflict--Africa, West.
- Social conflict.
- Political violence--Africa, West.
- Political violence.
- Africa, West--Politics and government--1960-.
- Africa, West.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Dakar, Senegal : Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This monograph highlights the necessity for taking preventive measures in the form of peace-building as a sustainable and long-term solution to conflicts in West Africa, with a special focus on the Mano River Union countries. Apart from the Mano River Union countries, efforts at resolving other conflicts in say, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, C?te d'Ivoire and Nigeria, have suffered from a lack of attention on the post-conflict imperatives of building peace in order to ensure that sustainable peace is achieved. Given the often intractable and inter-related nature of conflicts in this region, it argue
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgement; Chapter One - Introduction; Chapter Two - Peace Concept and Peace-building; Chapter Three - An Overview of the Liberian Crisis; Chapter Four - An Overview of the Sierra Leonean Crisis; Chapter Five - The Guinean Dimension: Dynamics of the Sub-regional Conflicts and Implications for Peace; Chapter Six - Other Conflicts in the Sub-Region; Chapter Seven - Regional Conflict Resolution Efforts; Chapter Eight - Multilateral Organisations and Conflict Resolution in the Sub-region
- Chapter Nine - The Role of External ActorsChapter Ten - The Imperative for Peace-Building; Chapter Eleven - Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [98]-104).
- ISBN:
- 9786612901591
- 9781282901599
- 1282901591
- 9782869784246
- 2869784244
- 9782869783805
- 2869783809
- 9782869782945
- 2869782942
- OCLC:
- 741350899
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