Conflict & collusion in Sierra Leone

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Conflict & collusion in Sierra Leone

David Keen

J. Currey , Palgrave, 2005

  • J. Curry : pbk
  • J. Curry : cloth

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Conflict and collusion in Sierra Leona

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"A project of the International Peace Academy"

Bibliography: p. [320]-332

Includes index

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Volume

J. Curry : cloth ISBN 9780852558829

Description

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 is not only a comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in SierraLeone, it represents a new and innovative approach to the study of war and Third World development and politics generally.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Historical background: uneven development - Rebellion (1): political or economic? - Rebellion (2): grievances & shame - The APC & the 'failure' of counterinsurgency - 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
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J. Curry : pbk ISBN 9780852558836

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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 Economics North America: Palgrave

Table of Contents

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

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