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Local and Global Dynamics
of Peacebuilding

Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence.

This book presents a nuanced and contextually specific knowledge of Sierra Leone's political and war histories, and the outcomes of the implementation of programmes of postconflict reforms. It embodies an analysis of the complex challenges involved in aligning international norms and values to local expectations and local priorities, and examines the role of local and global actors and structures in attempts to build a strong state and lasting peace. Using a theoretical framework informed by liberal peace philosophy, as well as detailed and nuanced empirical evidence from the field, the book constructs a critical analysis of the contemporary global paradigm for building longer-term peace in war-torn, fractured and fragile societies.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, development studies, African politics, and IR/security studies.

Christine Cubitt has a PhD in International Politics from the University of Bradford, UK.

Studies in Conflict, Development
and Peacebuilding

Series Editors: Keith Krause, Thomas J. Biersteker
and Riccardo Bocco

Graduate Institute of International and Development
Studies, Geneva

This series publishes innovative research into the connections between insecurity and under-development in fragile states, and into situations of violence and insecurity more generally. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the study of a variety of issues, including the changing nature of contemporary armed violence (conflict), efforts to foster the conditions that prevent the outbreak or recurrence of such violence (development), and strategies to promote peaceful relations on the communal, societal and international level (peacebuilding).

The Political Economy of Peacemaking
Achim Wennmann

The Peace In Between
Post-war violence and peacebuilding
Edited by Mats Berdal and Astri Suhrke

Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding
Postconflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone
Christine Cubitt

Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
Bridging top-down and bottom-up approaches
Bruno Charbonneau and Genevive Parent

Local and Global
Dynamics of Peacebuilding

Postconflict reconstruction in
Sierra Leone

Christine Cubitt

First published 2012

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Christine Cubitt

The right of Christine Cubitt to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Cubitt, Christine.

Local and global dynamics of peacebuilding:

postconflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone / Christine Cubitt.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Postwar reconstruction Sierra Leone.

2. Peace building Sierra Leone. 3. Sierra Leone

History Civil War, 19912002 Peace. I. Title.

II. Title: Postconflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone.

DT516.826.C82 2011

966.4'045 dc23

2011021869

ISBN: 9780415664912 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780203155615 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon

To the memory of my father, Jack Binks 19212002
and my mother, Margaret Binks 19252011

Contents

Illustrations

Figures

Tables

Maps

Acknowledgements

Thanks are extended to the Economic and Social Research Council for their generous funding of my PhD research, which enabled me to complete two field trips to Sierra Leone and to work on my thesis full-time. Thanks are also extended to the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, for supporting my application for funding, and my sincere gratitude is offered to the citizens of Sierra Leone who helped enrich this work and enhance its legitimacy. Grateful thanks go also to my supervisor, Nana Poku, without whose vigorous challenges and expert guidance this work would not have achieved its objectives; to Julia Buxton for her support on earlier work; and to all friends and colleagues in the Peace Studies research room for their collegiality. Appreciation is also extended to my examiners for their encouraging remarks for publication, and to the two anonymous reviewers who supported my proposal to Routledge and provided most useful feedback.

Some versions of this work appear elsewhere: in African Security Review (January 2011), published by Taylor & Francis in association with the Institute for Security Studies, and in African Peace & Conflict Journal (June 2011), published online by the University of Peace.

has been granted by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

Grateful thanks are extended to my family: to my mother, Margaret Binks, for being an excellent sounding-board, for her enthusiastic responses to my ideas, and for her kindness; to my sons, James, Rob, and Ed, for being themselves and for keeping me grounded in ways that only they know how! Special thanks to my husband David for his solid, generous and loyal support and, finally, to my father, Jack Binks, for his humour, uniqueness, and eccentricity, and for taking me on my first visit to Sierra Leone as a girl in 1971.

Abbreviations

ACC	Anti-corruption Commission
ACPs	African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries
AFRC	Armed Forces Ruling Council
APC	All People's Congress
AU	African Union
CCP	Commission for the Consolidation of Peace
CDCs	Chiefdom Development Committees
CDF	Civilian Defence Force
CGG	Campaign for Good Governance
CMRRD	Commission for Mineral Resources, National Reconstruction and Development
CPI	Corruption Perceptions Index
CSAP	Civil Society Alternative Process

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