The ECOWAS Commission  has developed several legal frameworks on peace and security which inform the areas of intervention by ECOWAS in Member States and identifies the roles and responsibilities of various  stakeholders (local, national and international) according to the nature of the political/security issue. The adoption of legal frameworks has been progressive and based on evolving challenges encountered in the region of sustain peace and development. The mechanism developed by ECOWAS to prevent violent conflicts or to provide timely response to security/disaster outbreaks had been so far qualified by many observers as great achievement. However, the peace and security landscape is transforming, confronting the region with multi-layered challenges, such as pandemics, clashes between farmers and herdsmen, election related violence and other violent phenomena which transcend the regional boundaries of ECOWAS.