Between Democracy and Terror : The Sierra Leone Civil War by Ibrahim Abdullah (2004, Trade Paperback)

Codesria (Conseil Pour Le Developpement De La Recherche Economique Et Sociale En Afrique)

2869781237

9782869781238

45877434

Between Democracy and Terror : the Sierra Leone Civil War

276 Pages

English

Africa / West

2004

History

Ibrahim Abdullah

Trade Paperback

9 in

6 in

Trade

23

966.4043

This is the most authoritative study of the Sierra Leone civil war to emanate from Africa, or indeed any publications' programme on Africa. It explores the genesis of the crisis, the contradictory roles of different internal and external actors, civil society and the media; the regional intervention force and the demise of the second republic. It analyses the numerous peace initiatives designed to end a war, which continued nonetheless to defy and outlast them; and asks why the war became so prolonged. The study articulates how internal actors trod the multiple and conflicting pathways to power. It considers how non-conventional actors were able to inaugurate and sustain an insurgency that called forth the largest concentration of UN peacekeepers the world has ever seen.

DT516.826.B48 2004