Title:	Violent Conflicts and Governance Challenges in West Africa: The Case of the Mano River Basin Area
Where & When:	Friday, November 14, 2003 341 Eggers 12:30:00 PM -
Type of Activity:	Lecture
Summary:	In West Africa, sustained failure of governance arrangements has led to the development of a system of violent conflicts in the Mano River basin area of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Liberia is the epicenter of this conflict system and a bridge to other conflicts in the wider West African sub-region. Fueled and sustained by a supportive international environment, this system of conflicts and its corresponding governance challenges have been largely addressed through state-specific responses which have, at best, yielded short-term successes but have typically failed to foster long-term solutions. What are needed are new approaches that can address regional scale conflicts and the challenges of reconstituting order at multiple levels of governance

Speaking:
Amos Sawyer
Co-Associate Director and Research Scholar, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Indiana University, Bloomington

Sponsor:
Development and Social Transformation Forum, Primary Sponsor