United Nations Role in the Economic Community of Central African States: Central African Republic and Chad

Abstract

Against Africa’s vast mineral and agriculture resources is a secured international security architecture that underpins superpower military regimes mandated to support electoral democratic models largely pushed for by former colonies. Thus, in discussing the UN’s role in the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), with the focus on Central African Republic and Chad, the discussion is situated in Barry Buzan and Ole Wævers’ regional security complexes theory. The chapter demonstrates that the complexity of regional security, initially advocated through imperial powers, has adversely exacerbated the regionalisation of transborder conflicts. Central African Republic has thus remained engrossed in decades of violence with several conflict-ridden neighbouring states including: the two Sudans and Abyei bordering its east; Cameroon on its west end; and Chad on its north.