Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Terwase Sampson Isaac
    The Responsibility to Protect and ECOWAS Mechanisms on Peace and Security: Assessing their Convergence and Divergence on Intervention
    in Journal of Conflict and Security Law , Volume 16 Issue 3 Winter ,  2011 ,  507-540
    In 2008, the United Nations Secretary General appointed a Special Adviser on Responsibility to Protect (R2P), with a mandate to develop its conceptual and doctrinal framework. The normative direction so far outlined by the Special Adviser in this regard privileges the deployment of wide ranging preventive tools as alternative to intrusive military action, while recognizing the significant role of regional and sub-regional arrangements in the operationalization of the doctrine. This article, therefore, explores the convergence and divergence between R2P and West Africa's regional mechanisms on conflict prevention, management and resolution; in view of their envisaged role in the operationalization of R2P under this new normative regime. The article is specifically intent on resolving the following queries: can the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS's) mechanisms on conflict prevention, management and resolution effectively co-exist with the doctrine of R2P? Are there areas of disagreement in the normative make-up of these two mechanisms that could inhibit cooperation on intervention for human protection? If such differences exist, what strategies would be required by the UN and ECOWAS to build normative harmony and operational coordination between the two mechanisms?
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