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    Barriers to justice in Sierra Leone

    World Bank, 2007
    Sierra Leone operates under a bifurcated legal structure which incorporates both elements of traditional or customary law and a formal system based on English common law. This paper says that Sierra Leoneans attempt to access justice through the country’s complex legal system encounters a number of barriers. These include:
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    How are violent conflict and poverty connected?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Violent conflict affects poor people disproportionately. It affects their assets, livelihoods, education and health. It can force them to leave their homes and destroy their social networks. Poverty can also act as a trigger for conflict through social discontent, the search for a better life and a lack of choices for those involved.
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    The search for sustainable democracy, development and peace: the Sierra Leone 2007 elections

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
    This collaborative work discusses Sierra Leone’s quest for sustainable democracy, peace and development. It traces the problems back to the root and examines what course the future might take and what is needed for the country to exist in a state of peace and development.
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    Focus on... A green revolution for Africa

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Forty years after the Asian Green Revolution , the spotlight has now turned on African agriculture. Increasing attention is being paid to the need for greater investment in African agriculture and key organisations are pushing for a New Green Revolution in Africa.
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    Programme insights: learning for action on women's leadership and participation: all papers

    Oxfam, 2008
    Women are often denied a voice within the states, markets, communities, and households in which they live, dominated as they are by men and male interests.
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    Enhancing the EU response to women and armed conflict

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2008
    Women’s multiple and diverse roles in conflict are hidden, poorly understood and, at times, consciously or unconsciously dismissed. Women are usually perceived as victims and analysis tends to examine exclusively  this idea.
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    Consolidating the peace? Views from Sierra Leone and Burundi on the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

    ActionAid International, 2008
    Published to coincide with the Peace-building commission’s (PBC’s) own first annual report to the General Assembly in June 2007, this report assesses the first year of the PBC’s work in its first two focus countries: Sierra Leone and Burundi.
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    Because I am a girl: the state of the world's girls 2008

    Plan International, 2008
    How are girls affected by conflict and its aftermath? This report draws on the perspectives of girls and young women, particularly from Haiti, Liberia and Timor-Leste (East Timor), to explain why they experience war and conflict in the way that they do.
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    Building paths to peace: Bo peace and reconciliation movement

    Conciliation Resources, 2007
    This paper looks at the issues surrounding building peace in Sierra Leone. It particularly focuses on addressing some key success stories through documenting the work of peace monitors and the Bo Peace and Reconciliation Movement (BPRM).
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    Country at a crossroads: challenges facing young people in Sierra Leone six years after the war

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
    This document summarises the findings and recommendations of a visit to Sierra Leone to assess the challenges facing displaced young people after the war. The authors looked at  young people’s needs, what services appear to be working, gaps in programming for young people and what more is needed.

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