By John M. Kabia
The top of the chilly warfare has been characterized by means of a wave of violent civil wars that experience produced remarkable humanitarian disaster and ache. even supposing commonly intra-state, those conflicts have unfold throughout borders and threatened foreign peace and defense via mass refugee circulation, proliferation of sunshine hands and the increase of neighborhood mercenary teams. probably the most affected components is the West African sub-region which has been domestic to a couple of Africa's such a lot brutal and intractable conflicts for greater than a decade.Kabia locates those operations inside of an elevated post-Cold battle conceptualisation of humanitarian intervention and examines the organisation's means in keeping civilians in danger in civil conflicts and facilitating the approaches of peacemaking and post-war peacebuilding geared toward fighting a relapse into clash. through the use of the empirical case of ECOWAS, this ebook examines the demanding situations posed through advanced political emergencies (CPEs) to humanitarian intervention. It strains the evolution of ECOWAS from an monetary integration venture to that of a safety employer and examines the demanding situations inherent in this type of transition.
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Although there were variations in the policies of the different colonial masters, the common underlying motives of all of them remained the subjugation and exploitation of the African continent. The French considered their territories as overseas provinces of France. To this end, they sought to integrate their territories closer to the metropole. This resulted in weakening of local authority structures through their policy of ‘assimilation’. The British on the other hand opted for the cheaper option of governing their colonies through indirect rule.
And as mentioned above, this resulted in the creation of countries with many different ethnic groups. Nigeria for instance has more than 250 ethnic groups with very different cultural and linguistic background. In some other cases, some ethnic groups straddle several countries. These artificial borders have caused and continue to cause serious social and political problems to post-colonial African states. In West Africa, arbitrary borders are partly responsible for the long running secessionist war in the Casamance region of Senegal.
As historical legacies are not enough to explain the sub-region’s widespread instability, the nature of post-independence domestic politics will also be analysed to highlight the devastating effects of neo-patrimonial and clientelistic politics and how these have produced failed states and complex political emergencies. Next we will examine the role of ethnicity and religion in 34 Humanitarian Intervention and Conflict Resolution in West Africa West African conflicts. Immediate and intervening factors that acted as catalysts for conflicts will then be examined.