The Liberian Crisis: Lessons for Intra-State Conflict Management and Prevention in Africa

The topic of protracted conflict in Africa and what might be done about it has exercised some of the best minds in the field of conflict research for a number of decades, and has become an even more urgent problem with the upsurge of violence, civil wars, and collapsed states in the 1990s. The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution is, therefore, particularly pleased to be able to publish Professor Mike Oquaye's analysis of and reflections on one all too typical case-that of Liberiain its Working Paper series. Oquaye completed this work while he was a Visiting Scholar at the institute during the academic year 1997-98, and he has subsequently revised and updated the work after returning to his own University in Ghana.