1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Preventive Diplomacy in Theory and Practice
Okon Akiba
2. Chapter 2: ECOWAS and Preventive Diplomacy in West Africa
Babatunde Afolabi
3. Chapter 3: Youth Bulge and West Africa: Understanding Dispute Triggers and Conflict Prevention
Augustine Ikelegbe
4. Chapter 4: Militant Psyche and Separatism: A Note On the Casamance Conflict and Necessity of Preventive Intervention
Okon Akiba
5. Chapter 5: Women’s War-time Struggle for Peace and Security in the Mano River Union
Oumar Ndongo
6. Chapter 6: Making and Enforcing Peace through Mediation and Fire Power: A Retrospective on the Liberia Experience
Okon Akiba
7. Chapter 7: About God and Violence in West Africa! Can Religious Organisations Foster Peace?
Charles Abiodun Alao and Ronke Ako Nai
8. Chapter 8: Rwanda and North Macedonia: Considering the Nature of Conflict and UN Peacemaking
Abdul Mumin Sa’ad
9. Chapter 9: Epilogue: Arbitrariness and Conflict: The Context of Preventive Diplomacy in West Africa
Okon Akiba
