Managing Election- Relation Violence for Democratic Stability in Ghana Graphic, 2008:16). Reports in the media about the incident indicated that socio-economic activities in Bekwai town came to a halt in addition to destruction of property, including smashing the windscreen of a police vehicle. Essentially, these young persons could not accept the supposed circumstances in which their candidate lost the primary election. Again, a group of angry NDC youth in Bulenge in the Wa East constituency of the Upper West Region also reportedly caused destruction to some property, mainly belonging to their party, on 14 November 2011 over the disqualification of their preferred parliamentary candidate (citifmonline.com, November 14, 2011). Similar developments took place in different parts of the country and had some impact on the organization of party primaries for the 2012 elections in some of those areas. The NPP, for example, is yet to organize its primaries in the Bekwai constituency, arguably because in view of past incidents, it does not want to jeopardise party cohesion if issues are not tactfully handled. At the inter-party level, mobilization activities by youth activists have often turned into violent and bloody clashes between footsoldiers of opposing political parties, sometimes leading to loss of life and destruction of property. An aspect of this worrying violent behaviour by the youth, which has intensified in the aftermath of the 2008 elections, is the wave of violent agitation over supposed non-fulfilment of electoral promises, non-involvement in and/or disappointment about political appointments and control over some public facilities, among other issues. Largely young party footsoldiers have resorted to violent means of expressing their dismay about such issues. Some have, in the process, destroyed government property, 321