Explaining War, Creating Peace: Uk-Sponsored Reforms in Sierra Leone
Contemporary Review › Band 291 Nr. 1693, Juli 2009
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The political and strategic impact of surging populations, spreading disease, deforestation and soil erosion, water depletion, air pollution, and, possibly, rising sea levels in critical, overcrowded regions . . . developments that will prompt mass migrations and, in turn, incite group conflicts - will be the core foreign-policy challenge from which most others will ultimately emanate.'3' Kaplan's theory has since been termed 'New Barbarism', given its depiction of 'new war' as more barbaric than modern war pre- 1989. Because this barbarism or 'primitivism' is ingrained in the immutable culture of Africans, Kaplan suggests that the conflicts that emerge possess no ideological motivations.
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Explaining War, Creating Peace: Uk-Sponsored Reforms in Sierra Leone
RECENT rioting and violence in Sierra Leone has returned this West African country to the pages of die international news. Despite the United Kingdom's massive assistance package to Sierra Leone (spanning military and intelligence reform, infant mortality reduction programmes, and changes to the traditional chieftaincy system), little has been heard about the former-British colony since the end of its civil war in 2002. This article seeks to redress this silence. Sierra Leone boasts perhaps a more intertwined history with the UK than any other African country. From the establishment of the capital of Freetown as a port for freed slaves, rescued by the British in 1787, to the colonial encounter and later British intervention in the civil war and extensive post-conflict reconstruction efforts, the UK has played a central role in shaping modern-day Sierra Leone. And yet the picture that most Britons hold of the country is limited to Hollywood-inspired images of diamond-hungry, drugged-up, AK-47 toting youths. Here a broader picture of the Sierra Leonean conflict and postconflict endeavours is painted. Despite the war being "don don' (Sierra Leonean krio word for 'finished') for over seven years now, argume...
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