A conflict early warning and early response ecosystem has been developing in West Africa as multilateral organizations, governments, civil society groups, and others have established systems that detect threats and provide critical information to relevant authorities. Yet individual EWER systems are prone to a range of failures--from gaps in data to decision-making bottlenecks to response coordination breakdowns.
For at least 10 years, many institutions and organizations in West Africa have sought to head off these patterns of violence by establishing early warning and early response systems at the regional, national, and local levels. These systems are intended to provide information on conflict risk to allow actors with a mandate and ability to respond to do so in a timely manner and prevent the escalation or spread of violence.
However, each system, no matter how sophisticated, eventually encounters the same points of failure: gaps in data and information on factors contributing to conflict, as well as problems around coordination, collaboration, and flow of critical information and analysis to those best positioned to respond.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
Research has shown that a network-of-networks approach can help reduce the barriers to successful conflict management and prevention. Because conflict dynamics are so complex, no single EWER system can be flexible enough to reliably and effectively scale, adapt, and respond. But linking existing networks can significantly increase the impact of these systems. To provide evidence, examples of EWER systems operating at the regional, national, and local levels are detailed in this report.
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