When the State Fails Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War

by Zack-Williams, Tunde

• ISBN13: 9780745332208
• ISBN10: 074533220X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: PLUTO PRESS

Summary

Compared with Kosovo and Iraq, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Failsrectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention. The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN, and regional African military intervention. Some claimed it as a case of successful humanitarian intervention. The authors in this collection provide an informed analysis of the impact of the intervention on democracy, development, and society in Sierra Leone. The authors take a particularly critical view of the imposition of neo-liberalism after the conflict. As NATO intervention in Libya shows the continued use of external force in internal conflicts, When the State Failsis a timely book for all students and scholars interested in Africa and the question of "humanitarian intervention."

Author Biography

Tunde Zack-Williams is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire and President of the UK African Studies Association. He is the author of African Mosaic: Political Social, Economic and Technological Development in the New Millenium (2009) and The Quest for Sustainable Peace: The 2007 Sierra Leone Elections (2008).

Table of Contents

Part I * Introduction: Background to War and Post-conflict Peace building, by Tunde Zack-Williams * 1. Multilateral Intervention in Sierra Leone’s Civil War: Some Structural Explanations, by Tunde Zack-Williams * 2. International Actors and Democracy Promotion in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone, by Marcella Macauley * 3. International Peace building in Sierra Leone: The Case of the United Kingdom, by Michael Kargbo * 4. Intervention and Peace-Building in Sierra Leone: A Critical Perspective, by Jimmy Kandeh * Part II * 5. The Role of External Actors in Sierra Leone’s Security Reform, by Osman Gbla * 6. Gender, Conflict and Peace building in Africa: The Sierra Leone Experience, by Sylvia Macauley * 7. Youth Marginalization in Post-War Sierra Leone: Mapping out the Challenges for Peace, by J. D. Ekundayo-Thompson * 8. Conflict and Peace building in Sierra Leone: The Role of the Sierra Leone Diasporas, by Zubairu Wai * Index