id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt tq57np21k37 Daniel Kofi Banini Regional Security Initiatives and Intrastate Peace and Stability: Appraising the Economic Community of West Africa's Convention on Non Proliferation of Small Arms 2015 .txt text/plain 110 4 37 Despite a number of the few initiatives to limit small arms proliferation, the ECOWAS region is still awash with small arms. This hypothesis is based on the following premises: that effective nonproliferation regime should (a) have the political will and support at the state, and at the regional level; that (b) small arms trade is a multifaceted global problem, as such, a global cooperation with nonproliferation regimes is also vital for the success of such regimes. cache/tq57np21k37.txt txt/tq57np21k37.txt