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The Burden of Collective Goodwill: The International Involvement in the Liberian Civil War

By Abiodun Alao

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1998
ISBN
9781351893459, 9781840143188
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
458 kB (468659 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Time added
2022-08-01 12:15:26

Description

The book is the first to discuss in detail the extensive external involvement in the Liberian civil war, a war that claimed up to 200,000 lives, created a massive refuge crisis and brought West Africa to the tribunal of international attention. The book is conceived against the background that the international response to the conflict has features that are unprecedented in the management of civil conflicts in the post-cold war era. For example, the regional peacekeeping mission was the first after the end of the cold war, while the dispatch of UN Observer mission was the first ever joint peacekeeping mission between the UN and a regional organisation. The extensive involvement of international organisations in the conflict has not been witnessed in the region since the Biafran war of 1967-1970.

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