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Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System

Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System

Ikeanyibe Okechukwu Marcellus, Ezeibe Chukwuebuka Christian
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466618121|ISBN10: 1466618124|EISBN13: 9781466618138
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch001
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Marcellus, Ikeanyibe Okechukwu, and Ezeibe Chukwuebuka Christian. "Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System." Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society: Technologies and Concepts, edited by Chaunda L. Scott and Marilyn Y. Byrd, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch001

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Marcellus, I. O. & Christian, E. C. (2012). Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System. In C. Scott & M. Byrd (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society: Technologies and Concepts (pp. 1-17). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch001

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Marcellus, Ikeanyibe Okechukwu, and Ezeibe Chukwuebuka Christian. "Regional Integration in West Africa: Exploring the Option of Leveraging Workforce Diversity in the Academia and University System." In Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society: Technologies and Concepts, edited by Chaunda L. Scott and Marilyn Y. Byrd, 1-17. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1812-1.ch001

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Abstract

Since its establishment in 1975, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has faced the task of regional integration and cooperation in West Africa mainly through economic policies and treaties, and has substantially failed to achieve the desired goals. The sub-region is probably one of the most outstanding regional enclaves of human diversity in the world. However, ethnicity and other differences remain critical phenomena of politics and life in the sub-region. More often than not, these differences are exploited for negative purposes rather than leveraging them for the objectives of cooperation, integration, and development. The university system and its academic membership offer an opportunity for harnessing some of the diversity in the region for more fruitful integration and development. This chapter examines this expected role of academia and the university system towards leveraging human resource diversity for improved cooperation, integration, and development in West Africa.

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