United Nations and ECOWAS Joint Intervention in Sierra-Leonean Conflict: An Analysis of the Problems of Peacekeeping, Peacemaking and Peace Enforcement
Year: 2012
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper analyzes the problems of peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace enforcement in the management of the Sierra-Leone conflict. As the conflict erupted in Sierra-Leone between the government of Sierra-Leone and the rebel group, RUF, the scale of carnage and horror occasioned by its escalation made a third party intervention unarguably imperative. Both the United Nations and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) intervened. The ECOWAS/UN intervention featured a unique idea of division of labor between the United Nations and regional organization in the resolution of regional conflict. The paper, therefore, looks at the joint involvement of the UN and ECOWAS in the Sierra Leonean conflict and the attendant problems of peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace enforcement that haunted the intervention. The paper concludes that the idea of joint intervention in a regional conflict is sensible, notwithstanding the obvious and indubitable problems and difficulties that assailed the United Nations and ECOWAS intervention in the Sierra-Leonean conflict.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Author: Чука Энука
Institution: Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W112971084