West Africa's Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace-Building

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West Africa’s Trouble Spots and the Imperative for Peace-Building Osita Agbu Monograph Series The CODESRIA Monograph Series is published to stimulate debate, comments, and further research on the subjects covered. The Series serves as a forum for works based on the findings of original research, which however are too long for academic journals but not long enough to be published as books, and which deserve to be accessible to the research community in Africa and elsewhere. Such works may be case studies, theoretical debates or both, but they incorporate significant findings, analyses, and critical evaluations of the current literature on the subjects in question. © Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006 Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop Angle Canal IV, BP 3304 Dakar, 18524, Senegal Web site: www.codesria.org All rights reserved Typeset by Daouda Thiam Cover image designed by Ibrahima Fofana Printed by Imprimerie Saint Paul, Dakar, Senegal Distributed in Africa by CODESRIA Distributed elsewhere by the African Books Collective www.africanbookscollective.com Monograph Series ISBN: 2-86978-193-8 CODESRIA would like to express its gratitude to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA), the French Ministry of Cooperation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rockefeller Foundation, FINIDA, NORAD, CIDA, IIEP/ADEA, OECD, IFS, OXFAM America, UN/UNICEF and the Government of Senegal for supporting its research, training and publication programmes To Isaac Nwakor Agbu For leaving us with a legacy of simplicity and thirst for knowledge ...