Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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A comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone.The United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of 'the New Barbarism', it has also become a proving ground for Western interventions in the war against terrorism.The conventional diplomatic approach to Sierra Leone's civil war is that it has been a contest between two clearly defined sides. Keen demonstrates this is not the case: the various armed groups were fractured throughout the 1990s, often colluded with one another, and had little interest in bringing the war to an end. This book not only represents a new and innovative approach to the study of war and Third World development and politics generally.DAVID KEEN is Professor of Complex Emergencies at the Development Studies Institute, London School of EconomicsNorth America: Palgrave

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Utgivningsdatum2005-10-20
Mått150 x 228 x undefined mm
Vikt424 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagJames Currey
ISBN9780852558836

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Introduction - Historical background: uneven development - Rebellion (1): political or economic? Rebellion (2): grievances & shame - The APC & the 'failure' of counter-insurgency - Military coup & military abuses - 'Sell-game': a strangely co-operative conflict - Sobels & civil defence: some case-studies - Aid & violence - Emergency aid as welfare intervention: some deficiencies - From Abidjan to the May 1997 junta: collaboration comes to town - The ARFC/RUF junta: rise & fall - The rebels return to Freetown - Peace & its discontents- A more peaceable RUF highlights problems elsewhere (June 2000 to present) - Conclusion

Rather than emerging from the UN Security Council chamber, from research institutions focused on econometric work, or from the boardrooms of private sector actors involved in civil war situations, this volume is rooted in Sierra Leone itself, often taking us to the city, town and village level to understand the local dynamics of war and survival. ... I can think of no scholar of the political economy of war who has more influenced policy thinking over the past ten years than Keen. I was fortunate to be one of the first to hear him describe his months of field research in Sierra Leone, where he sought to understand both the initial drivers of the conflict and those factors sustaining violence - nation-wide and locally.