This article provides a comparative analysis of two decades of Economic Community of West African States initiated peacekeeping missions in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, and Côte d’Ivoire as a basis for understanding Africa’s most advanced regional peace and security mechanism. It identifies the issues and debates around ECOWAS Cease-fire Monitoring Group p...

This article provides a comparative analysis of two decades of Economic Community of West African States initiated peacekeeping missions in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, and Côte d’Ivoire as a basis for understanding Africa’s most advanced regional peace and security mechanism. It identifies the issues and debates around ECOWAS Cease-fire Monitoring Group p...

<em>The Lecture Series on African Security</em> is a joint collaboration between the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI). The first round of lectures was conducted in 2008. The lectures revolve around core themes in African security studies and case studies from contemporary Africa, and they are presented by highly renowned i...

The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the p...

Edited by Signe Arnfred and Mats Utas.