Recent investigation into the activities of Sandline International
in Sierra Leone has rekindled interest in the role of private
armies in African conflicts. Sensational references in newspaper
articles, however, run the risk of emphasizing the military aspect
of security at the expense of a holistic approach to an emergent
security conundrum.This fascinating book is a critique of mercenary
involvement in post-Cold War African conflicts. It seeks to achieve
a greater understanding of the mercenary-instability complex by
examining the links between the rise in internal conflicts and the
proliferation of mercenary activities in the 1990s. The distinction
in the methods adopted by Cold War mercenaries and their
contemporary counterparts, the convoluted network between private
armies, business interests, sustained poverty in Africa's poorest
countries as well as the connection between mercenary activities
and arms proliferation. In exploring solutions to the upsurge of
mercenaries on the continent, the book seeks a political and legal
redefinition of the term "mercenaries," and calls for new
international legislation.The book argues that unless there are
complete solutions to the root causes of conflict in a region where
poverty represents the greatest threat to democracy and
development, legislation will provide only temporary, rather than
permanent, mechanisms for stemming this disturbing trend.
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