Ecomog: A Sub-Regional Experience in Conflict Resolution, Management and Peacekeeping In Liberia

An extremely well researched account of the peace keeping activities of the ECOMOG Task Force Battalion before and after the electoral process in Liberia in 1997-98. The book covers the following: African settler colonial domination, the politics of settler colonisation, the dilemma of military intervention in politics, the demise of the democratic state structure, initial ECOMOG intervention 1990, political progress and setback, political and military progress, political and military stagnation, the electoral process - June/August 1997, the attributes of a sub-regional peace-keeping force, sub-regional conflict resolution in relation to the UN, the Sierra Leonean conflict, the unfinished quest for lasting peace and problems of withdrawal and consolidation of peace, an overwhelming case for international collaboration, the contribution of Ghana, guideposts and lessons for the future.