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Abstract : The need for regional organizations to resolve and settle conflicts in their regions has become an urgent necessity, especially after the Cold War, because the proximity of these organizations to the conflict zone makes them able to know the causes of these conflicts and ways to address them, and the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS is one of these organizations that was established in 1975 as a regional organization working to achieve economic integration among the fifteen member states in West Africa, but it gradually transformed and under the pressure of political events into an organization responsible for finding solutions to armed conflicts and other political crises in its region, and accordingly this study attempts to evaluate the role of ECOWAS in managing Conflicts in West Africa by highlighting its role in Ivory Coast as a model . The African continent is one of the regions in the world most exposed to acts of political violence, due to many factors such as poverty and the tyranny of the ruling elites in its countries and other factors.