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

Table of Contents

Contents List of Abbreviations ..........................................................................................vii Foreword .................................................................................................................ix Preface and Acknowledgement .........................................................................x 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 Review of the Causes and Nature of Conflicts in Africa.............................. 6 2. Peace Concept and Peace-building .............................................................. 13 3. An Overview of the Liberian Crisis ............................................................. 21 Background to the Crisis ................................................................................. 21 Supplement to the Abuja Accord (17 August 1996). .................................. 24 Post-War Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Liberia ............................. 26 4. An Overview of the Sierra Leonean Crisis ................................................. 32 Background to the Crisis ................................................................................. 32 Post-War Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone ................... 36 Disarmament, Democratisation and Reintegration in the Peace Process 38 Civil Society and the Peace Process............................................................... 41 Justice and Reconciliation ............................................................................... 43 Peace-Building and the Legacy of Terror ..................................................... 43 5. The Guinean Dimension: Dynamics of the Sub-regional Conflicts and Implications for Peace ................................. 49 6. Other Conflicts in the Sub-Region ............................................................... 55 Guinea Bissau ................................................................................................... 55 Senegal and the Casamance Conflict ............................................................ 58 The Uprising in Côte d’Ivoire......................................................................... 59 Myriad of Conflicts in Nigeria ....................................................................... 62 7. Regional Conflict Resolution Efforts............................................................ 67 Efforts by ECOWAS......................................................................................... 69 Accord de Non Agression et d’Assistance en matière de Défense (ANAD) ..................................................................... 72 Osita Agbu vi ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG).................................. 72 The Moratorium on Small Arms and Light Weapons ................................ 74 8. Multilateral Organisations and Conflict Resolution in the Sub-region ............................................................................. 78 9. The Role of External Actors ............................................................................ 82 10. The Imperative for Peace-Building ............................................................. 86 Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 92 Bibliography .......................................................................................................... 98 ...