Mohammed Sambo, Abubakar and Othman, Muhammad Fuad and Omar, Rusdi (2017) ECOWAS, Good Governance and Collective Military Action in Liberia: A Post Conflict Assesment. In: 2nd International Research Conference on Economics Business and Social Sciences, 11-12 July 2017, Park Royal Hotel Penang Malaysia..

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Abstract

One of the biggest social and political challenges of the states in west Africa south of the Sahara, is that of good governance. Lack of good governance had its debilitating consequences in post-colonial states of west Africa. Most states in this sub-region had a “taste” of military dictatorship at one point in time or the other. illiteracy, unaccountability, and corruption by the public servants in most states with the sub-region. Majority of the post-cold war conflicts and crises in this sub-region are attributed to the absence of good governance.This compels the ECOWAS to revise its treaty and adopt an additional protocol on Democracy and good governance, so that the potential source of conflicts in the sub-region tied to mis-governance can be handled by ECOWAS at the sub-regional level and for the ECOWAS to manage conflicts, crises and insecurity to forestall it from distracting economic integration processes of the regional economic group.Of all the reasons adjudge to the causes of the first Liberian crises leading to the first sub-regional military intervention initiative in 1989 for instance, which was the bases for ECOWAS shifting it base to security management is lack of good governance. Thus, the objective of this paper, is to evaluate how the absence of good governance contributed to ECOWAS shifting to non-interference to security management in west Africa, and to assess the impacts of the new protocol on democracy and good governance among the ECOWAS member states in the post-cold war and post-Liberian conflict.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	ISSN-2523-1537 Cover and Layout: Sobia Nasir, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Distributed by: School of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan Pakistan (www.bzu.edu.pk) Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy (www.globalcsrc.org) School of Economics Finance and Banking, Universiti Utara Malaysia (www.sefb.uum.edu.my)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ECOWAS, good governance, collective military action, liberia, post conflict
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions:	School of International Studies
Depositing User:	Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2018 00:06
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2020 02:42
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/24871

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