Humanitarian intervention in complex political emergencies: a conceptual framework for analysis -- Analysing conflicts in West Africa: causal factors and interpretation -- From ECOWAS to ECOMOG: the evolution of ECOWAS security regionalism -- Duality of ECOMOG intervention in Liberia: alternating between forcible and non-forcible -- Peacekeeping without Nigeria: ECOWAS intervention in Guinea Bissau and Cote d'Ivoire -- Elusive peace or flawed strategy: LURD/MODEL rebellion and relapse into full scale war in Liberia -- Peacebuilding in Liberia and Sierra Leone: a comparative perspective -- Institutionalising conflict resolution and humanitarian intervention in West Africa -- Conclusion
Summary
Taking the empirical case of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), this volume locates the peacekeeping operations of ECOWAS within an expanded post-Cold War conceptualization of humanitarian intervention. It examines the organization's capacity to protect civilians at risk in civil conflicts and to facilitate the processes of peacemaking and post-war peace-building
