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September 2023
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April 2002
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Conflict Security and Development
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This paper examines the state of civil-military relations and the prospects for demilitarisation anddemocratisation in contemporary West Africa. Its underlying thesis is that West Africa poses one of the greatest dilemmas to the prospects for demilitarisation in Africa. At the same time, it offers a potentially useful mecha- nism for regional peace and security with implications for (de)militarisation in Africa. While the paper recognises the historico-structural dimensions of militarisation as well as the behavioural obstacles to demilitarisation, it captures the challenges and prospects in terms of the complexity of state-civil society relations and suggests a holistic understanding of the concept of security. This, it does with a view to de-emphasising force as the key mechanism for conflict resolution, and promoting an inclusive institutionalframework for demilitarisation and development.
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... Reports of violent crime and gang violence have been rising gradually. 49 The security apparatus has increasingly been used to repress dissent and opposition to government. The initial success of the retrained and reconstituted security apparatus-when the military and the police were guided by British and other foreign trainers-gave way to the old ways not long after the departure of the IMAT and police trainers. ...
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... It possesses historical character that has substantially changed overtimes whereby the old type that took place between 1960 to 1990 in Africa demonstrated the forceful domination of political space by the military armed forces (Hutchful & Aning, 2021) while the new version that emerged at the aftermath of democratic wave that started in 1990s reflected the military means and undemocratic practices of civilian governments, which has been described fundamental to the present resurgence of military intervention in Africa. Militarization is an embodiment of different factors such as; the growth of armed forces, rearmament, and an increasing role of the military in domestic conflicts, prioritization of military oriented approaches and the inculcation of militaristic values in democratic institutions (Fayemi, 1998). It entails the general enabling conditions for the historical military interventions in African politics as well as the recent military resurgence in the continent. ...
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