![]() ![]() In contradistinction, the success of the Abuja II Peace Agreement was anchored in the fact that the requisite steps were taken to ensure the effective operationalisation of the battery of elements required for success. What factors accounted for these outcomes? The initial sixteen peace agreements were deficient in terms of one or more of the elements that that have to be dealt with for the successful implementation of a peace accord – ranging from the ‘spoiler phenomenon’ to the lack of enforcement. Finally, the Abuja II Peace Accord ended the blood-bath. However, the initial sixteen peace accords failed to end the war. ![]() The resultant ‘tugs and pulls’ degenerated into Liberia’s first civil war (1989–1996).Ĭoncerned about the adverse impact of the war on sub-regional security, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the sub-regional organisation, intervened in the conflict using, among others, a peacemaking approach that revolved around various peace accords. Understandably, the Doe regime launched a counter-offensive. On Christmas Eve in 1989, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), a rebel group led by Charles Taylor, a former official of the Doe regime, launched a military attack against the north-central region of Liberia from a base in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Dr George Klay Kieh jr is Professor of Political Science and Former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. ![]()
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