1st Edition

Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa Lessons from ECOWAS and IGAD

Edited By Victor Adetula, Redie Bereketeab, Cyril Obi Copyright 2021
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of regional economic communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa. Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on comparative analysis of the status, role, and performances of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development... Read more

1. Introduction: Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in West Africa and the Horn of Africa

Victor Adetula, Redie Bereketeab and Cyril Obi

2. Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa: Analysis of Legal Framework and Concerns for International Law

Olugbemi Jaiyebo and Victor Adetula

3. Peacebuilding in Africa: Popular Progressive versus Neoliberal Peacebuilding

Redie Bereketeab

4. Towards a Human Security-Centred Approach to Peacebuilding: ECOWAS’s Experiences and Lessons

Aderemi Ajibewa and Jubril Agbolade Shittu

5. Civil Society Organisations and the ECOWAS Peace and Security Agenda: A Case Study of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)

Chukwuemeka B. Eze

6. ECOWAS and The Limits of Peace-making in West Africa

Amadu Sesay

7. ECOWAS and Triangular Cooperation for Peacebuilding in West Africa: Challenges and Prospects form the Liberian and Sierra Leonean Experience

Kehinde Olayode

8. Nigeria’s Role in ECOWAS Peace and Security Agenda for West Africa

Oshita O. Oshita and Warisu O. Alli

9. The IGAD-Eritrea Impasse: Future Prospects in Light of Recent Developments

Senai W. Andemariam

10. Lessons to be Learned from IGAD’s Involvement in the Sudan Peace Process (1993-2005)

Nureldin Satti

11. Kenya’s Diplomacy and International Relations within the IGAD Regian on Matters of Peace and Security: Growth, Development, and Prospects

Kizito Sabala

12. Uganda and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

Kasaija Phillip Apuuli

13. Peacebuilding the Context of Ethiopia-IGAD Relations

Kassahun Berhanu

14. The Big Elephant in the Room: The Meddling and Machinations of IGAD and Ethiopia in Somalia

Mohamed Haji Ingiriis

15. 'You Don’t Own Peace': The Coward State, South Sudan and IGAD Relations

Jacob D. Chol

Biography

Victor Adetula is a Professor of International Relations and Development Studies at the University of Jos, Nigeria.

Redie Bereketeab is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

Cyril Obi is a Program Director at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA.