• Revised Treaty of ECOWAS (1993) (for example, article 58(3) thereof)
• Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance (2001),
the Protocol Relating to the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention,
Management, Resolution, Peace Keeping and Security (1999).
• ECOWAS has established institutions, and programmes to support the
realisation of the commitments in above mentioned instruments,
including the Early Warning and Response Network and the ECOWAS
Conflict Prevention Framework.
• However, both at the regional (AU) and sub-regional (ECOWAS) levels,
mechanisms have not mainstreamed minority issues into these
processes.