Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6534
Title: Probing the roles of governance and greed in civil strife in West Africa
Contributor(s): Ware, Helen  (author)orcid ; Ogunmola, Oyedele A (author)
Publication Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1108/S1572-8323(2010)0000014009
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6534
Abstract: Purpose - This chapter aims to explore the causes of civil war in West Africa, including the perspectives of those directly involved. both those involved voluntarily and those involved against their will. To this end, we examine the three contiguous war-afflicted coastal countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast and as a counterweight, Ghana which has escaped civil war. Methodology - Brief country case studies are used to explore the motivations of leaders and followers which often diverge. This chapter examines four West African countries: • Sierra Leone and Liberia, which have suffered classic brutal, 'third war' civil wars (Holsti, K. (Ed.). (1996). Wars of the third kind. In: The state, war and the state of war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). • Ivory Coast, once seen as the West African 'beacon of stability' (Royce, E. (2003). Testimony. US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, 2nd February, p. 12) but now suffering a seventh year of civil conflict. • Ghana, the counter case, which has so far survived multiple military coups without descending into national conflagration.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, p. 71-87
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Place of Publication: Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780857240057
9780857240040
0857240048
0857240056
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160509 Public Administration
200211 Postcolonial Studies
160607 International Relations
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940203 Political Systems
940201 Civics and Citizenship
810102 Army
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37798645
Series Name: Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
Series Number : 14
Editor: Editor(s): Benjamin E Goldsmith, Jurgen Brauer
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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