Between Democracy and Terror - The Sierra Leone Civil War (Paperback)

This title is the first serious study to engage with the Sierra Leone civil war. It explores the genesis of the crisis; the contradictory roles of different internal actors; civil society and the fourth estate; the regional intervention force; the demise of the second republic; and the numerous peace initiatives to end the war. It articulates how internal actors tread the multiple but conflicting pathways to power, why the war lasted for as long as it did, and how non-conventional actors were able to inaugurate and sustain an insurgency that called forth the largest concentration of United Nations peacekeepers the world has ever seen. The contributors challenge tendencies to reduce all these happenings, these 'thick descriptions'/histories, to a footnote in a narrative that privileges the economic factor, thereby devalourising research and scholarship in understanding and changing the reality in Sierra Leone.

General

Imprint:	Codesria
Country of origin:	Senegal
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	September 2000
Editors:	Ibrahim Abdullah
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-2-86978-123-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	2-86978-123-7
Barcode:	9782869781238

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