Author : David Keen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sierra Leone
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120931097
Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone by David Keen Pdf
The United Nations' presence in Sierra Leone has made that country a subject of international attention to an unprecedented degree. Once identified as a source of `the New Barbarism', it has also become a proving ground for Western interventions in the war against terrorism. The conventional diplomatic approach to Sierra Leone's civil war is that it has been a contest between two clearly defined sides. Keen demonstrates this is not the case: the various armed groups were fractured throughout the 1990s, often colluded with one another, and had little interest in bringing the war to an end. This book is not only a comprehensive description and novel interpretation of events in Sierra Leone, it represents a new and innovative approach to the study of war and Third World development and politics generally.