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Peace enforcement through sub-regional organisations: the Economic Community of West African States and Operation Liberty in Liberia

The activities of African international organisations evolved dramatically in the 1990s. A proliferation of internal wars coupled with the relative disengagement of the developed world from Africa in the wake of the Cold War thrust the continent's sub-regional organisations into an unprecedented role as instruments of conflict management. Among other tasks, several of these organisations have assumed the responsibility of launching peace enforcement operations into their member states. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has become Africa's most prominent interstate organisa…