Sierra Leone and Conflict and security
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- The BLDS conflict collection
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- Search for the latest conflict-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- The European Union must get serious about women and conflict
- Andrew Sherriff; Karen Barnes / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Women’s roles in conflict are hidden, poorly understood and, at times, dismissed. Attention is usually only drawn to women’s roles as victims. The European Union (EU) is becoming more responsive to the different roles that w...
- Monitoring and enforcement of UN arms embargoes in Africa
- G. Lamb / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa, 2008
- There are no international standards and treaties governing the import, export and transfer of arms. Some states and regional bodies, such as the European Union (EU), have policies and legislation regulating the trade in arms. However...
- Reparations to the victims of sexual violence in Sierra Leone
- Amnesty International, 2007
- In this paper, Amnesty International raises its concern over the lacking commitment of the government in Sierra Leone to provide meaningful reparations to the victims of sexual violence, six years after the end of the conflict. It arg...
- Donor interventions in post-conflict Sierra Leone
- S. Meyer / Fride, 2007
- This brief article traces the causes of the conflict in Sierra Leone back to the British colonial political system. It describes some options taken by donors in their post-conflict assistance and investigates how these approaches touc...
- How can agricultural production be rehabilitated in war-torn countries?
- New Agriculturalist, 2007
- The aftermath of war is a reality faced by millions of rural poor around the world, and re-establishing agricultural production, for both subsistence and trade, is an essential part of the rehabilitation process. This edition of New A...
- Sexual violence against women during conflict: the need for a coordinated effort
- Estelle Zinsstag / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Systematic campaigns of rape in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s have drawn international attention to the abuse of women in times of war. But the number of victims who receive redress or support for rebuilding their ...
- Recommendations for the new UN Peacebuilding Commission from Sierra Leone and Burundi
- CARE International, 2007
- This report assess the first year of work by the United Nations Peacebuilidng Commission (PBC). The report coincides with the PBC’s own first annual report to the General Assembly and assesses the PBC’s impacts on its firs...
- Enhancing southern capacity: does the rhetoric match the reality?
- M. Couldrey (ed); T. Morris (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2007
- Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building Southern capacity and, increasingly, this discourse has been focused on forming ‘partnerships’ with Southern organisations. In this edition of Fo...
- Conflict prevention is cost-effective
- Malcolm Chalmers; Emery Brusset; Jeremy McKenna / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Preventing conflicts could be more beneficial and cost-effective. However, preventive action may be unsuccessful or only delay the start of violence. In some cases, predicted conflicts would not have taken place even in the absence of...
- Protection solutions for displaced women and children
- Dale Buscher; Ramina Johal; Diana Quick / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Women and children face unique risks during times of conflict and related displacement, including rape, domestic violence, child abuse, exploitative labour and so on. In these situations, community-based programs, designed in consulta...
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