Regional Economic Organizations and Conventional Security Challenges by M. Leann Brown

Author:M. Leann Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

In May 1990, the ECOWAS convened a summit in Banjul (The Gambia) at the suggestion of Nigeria’s President Ibrahim Babanghida to consider the escalating violence in Liberia. At this meeting, a Standing Mediation Committee (SMC) was created to foster peaceful settlement of the conflict that would then lead to general elections. For three weeks in July, the SMC and representatives from the warring factions tried in vain to reach a peace settlement. By August, with no peace in sight, the SMC created the ECOWAS Cease-fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) to intervene militarily in an operation code named “Liberty,” beginning on 24 August 1990 (Dennis and Brown 2003, 231). The SMC continued to hope for a political solution to the conflict, and called for the creation of a broadly based, interim government to rule Liberia until internationally supervised elections could be held (Howe 1996, 151). How prepared was the ECOWAS to undertake this mission?

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.