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
- Weapons in hands of West African youths spell trouble
- N. Florquin; E. G. Berman / Small Arms Survey, 2005
- This study looks at the armed groups and small arms in the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Armed groups in this report are defined as groups that have the capacity to challenge the...
- Increasing conflict sensitivity within the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) process
- World Bank, 2005
- This report aims to determine how causes and consequences of violent conflict can best be addressed within a country’s poverty reduction program. It is based on a a retrospective analysis of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) e...
- Youth fighters in West Africa
- Human Rights Watch, 2005
- This paper looks at the migrant population of young fighters – regional warriors – who have been involved in the armed conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire since the late 1980’s, who v...
- Diamond-fuelled wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone
- G. Lwanda / African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2003
- By outlining four diamond-fuelled wars in Africa, this chapter brings to light Africa’s resource curse and asks whether Africa really needs its nature. It gives an overview of the wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Co...
- Political leaders involvement in both conflict and peace building
- G. Peake; C. Gormley-Heenan; M. Fitzduff / Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, 2005
- This project report seeks to explain what the authors describe as the bitter irony that holds true of many conflicts: why many of the local political leaders who played such a central part in perpetuating conflict remain a public feat...
- Local NGO involvement was vital to the sustainability of education programmes: Guinea, Sierra Leone and South Sudan
- K. Newell-Jones / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004
- This paper reviews a series of small scale, non-formal education interventions in Guinea, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, during 1999-2004, undertaken by Education for Development, a UK non-governmental organisation (NGO). It finds that...
- Effective programmes for youth in post-conflict situations
- Y. Kemper / Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2005
- This study examines youth in war-to-peace transitions and the response of international organisations to them. It specifically asks what approaches have international organisations developed regarding youth? On which assumptions about...
- Youth views on the problems and challenges they face associated with armed conflict
- Women's Refugee Commission, 2005
- This paper provides an overview of the problems and challenges young people face during and after armed conflict and also offers youth-driven solutions for addressing these problems. The report draws on participatory research conducte...
- Behind the scenes military spending: dilemmas for managing public expenditure
- Dylan Hendrickson; Nicole Ball / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- Reported levels of military expenditure in state budgets often reveal only a part of the story. In many countries military expenses are disguised within non-defence budgets or do not appear in the budget at all. Such ‘off- budget...
- Children in disasters: lessons from El Salvador, Sierra Leone and Viet Nam
- A. Jabry / Plan, 2002
- Exposure to a disaster is a traumatic experience for any person, but particularly so for a child. This report presents three case studies which illustrate practical lessons from Plan’s experience of working with children in disas...
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