Rough Road to Peace

Title: Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor, Rough Road to Peace
Author: Udu Yakubu
Year of Publication: 2022
ISBN 978-978-51255-2-8
Pages: 300 + xii

Rough Road to Peace buttresses the complex multidimensional, circumstances
through which the subject, Lt. General C.I. Obiakor, arrived at the upper echelons of
global military service. It captures such situations in great details and so succinctly
that the reader cannot miss the illustrated trajectory to achieving peace in a
conflict-ridden world. After many years of war in Liberia and Sierra Leone, for
examples, these countries have finally known and enjoyed a great measure of peace
in over a decade. This didn't happen by magic.

In numerous ways, the General pursued and shaped the course of combating
conflicts and achieving peace and peaceful co-existence within and amongst
countries in various parts of the world. This work situates him in varying contexts of
conflict in society and explores the roles he played at various tactical, operational,
and strategic levels in guiding and compelling people, organizations and nation-
states to behave in ways that ensured a less conflict-ridden and more peaceful
world.

The paths were rough, but the results indicate some of the most illuminating
experiences of modern society, and have laid critical foundations for concrete
human and material development in communities and nations.

– General Alexander O. Ogomudia (rtd) CFR
Former Chief of Defence Staft, Federal Republic of Nigeria