Liberia Must Inform ECOWAS on the Ivorian Crisis

Author:
Securedem
Publisher:
Secure Democracy Project
Publication Date:
1 November 2002
Tags:
Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Conflict, Peace and Security

It is hoped that ECOWAS has learnt the lessons of its involvement in Liberia, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone. This contribution provides a capsule analysis of the lessons from the Liberian conflict of the 1990s and it argues that if ECOWAS is to be successful in its proposed mission in Cote d’Ivoire, then it must go back and critically examine the lessons from its earlier interventions which, not only raised serious debates and a plethora of issues, but also provide a unique history in regional intervention globally

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