Peacekeepers, Politicians and Warlords : The Liberian Peace Process / Abiodun Alao, John Mackinlay, and 'Funmi Olonisakin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alao, Abiodun, author.

Mackinlay, John, author.

Olonisakin, ʼFunmi, author.

Series:

Foundations of peace Peacekeepers, politicians, and warlords

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberia--History--Civil War, 1989-1996--Peace.

Liberia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : United Nations University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recording or assessing a wide canvas of concurrently running events is difficult, as a crisis and the international response to it develop in stages. This work sets out to record the environment of the Cotonou Agreement by interviewing officials in situ while the past was still fresh.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Tables, ®gures, and maps; Acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Regional peacekeeping after the Cold War; 2 From peace to chaos: The outbreak of con ̄ict in Liberia; 3 Regional intervention in Liberia; 4 The Cotonou Agreement and the inherent obstacles to its success; 5 Why Cotonou failed; 6 Abuja I: Plans for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration; 7 Abuja II; 8 Towards a settlement; 9 Conclusion: Some lessons from the Liberian experience; Postscript; Appendices; Bibliography; About the authors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4356-3186-2

92-808-7103-X

OCLC:

85811798