Author: Sierra Leone. Constitutional Review CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Report to the Constitutional Review Committee, Republic of Sierra Leone
Author: Sierra Leone. Constitutional Review CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Sierra Leone
Author: David John HarrisPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199361762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A new political history of the former British colony in West Africa, best known for its diamonds and recent violent civil war, this covers 225 years of history and fills a gap in African studies.
HIV Exceptionalism
Author: Adia BentonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452943850
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
WINNER, 2017 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign funds specifically targeted at HIV/AIDS prevention and care. What Adia Benton chronicles in this ethnographically rich and often moving book is how one war-ravaged nation reoriented itself as a country suffering from HIV at the expense of other, more pressing health concerns. During her fieldwork in the capital, Freetown, a city of one million people, at least thirty NGOs administered internationally funded programs that included HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Benton probes why HIV exceptionalism—the idea that HIV is an exceptional disease requiring an exceptional response—continues to guide approaches to the epidemic worldwide and especially in Africa, even in low-prevalence settings. In the fourth decade since the emergence of HIV/AIDS, many today are questioning whether the effort and money spent on this health crisis has in fact helped or exacerbated the problem. HIV Exceptionalism does this and more, asking, what are the unanticipated consequences that HIV/AIDS development programs engender?
Sierra Leone Under Military Rule, One Year Later
Author: Sierra Leone Institute for Policy StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military government
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Report of the National Constitutional Review Commission Appointed by His Excellency the President Major-General Dr. Joseph Saidu Momoh, GCRSL, DCL to Review the Constitution of Sierra Leone 1978 and the White Paper Thereon
Author: National Constitutional Review Commission (Sierra Leone)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
Author: Krijn PetersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139497391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently incomplete understanding of the conflict by focusing on the direct experiences and interpretations of protagonists, paying special attention to the hitherto neglected, and often underage, cadres of the RUF. The data presented challenges the widely canvassed notion of the Sierra Leone conflict as a war motivated by 'greed, not grievance'. Rather, it points to a rural crisis expressed in terms of unresolved tensions between landowners and marginalized rural youth, further reinforced and triggered by a collapsing patrimonial state.
Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone
Author: David KeenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
The Sierra Leone Review
Author: Sierra Leone
Author: John L. HirschPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555876982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
John Hirsch traces Sierra Leone's downward spiral in this book, drawing on his first-hand experience as US amabassador in Freetown in 1995-1998. Hirsch analyzes the historical, social and economic contexts of the ongoing struggle, as well as the impacts of regional and international powers.
Against All Odds
Author: Major Phil AshbyPublisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1466838779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Against All Odds is the incredible true story of that escape-and of the heart-pounding courage of Major Phil Ashby who defeated the rebel forces of Sierra Leone and became a living testament to the power of the human spirit and the sheer determination to survive. In West Africa's war-ravaged Sierra Leone no one was getting out alive. It took the courage of one man to change the odds. By 1990, Sierra Leone, once hailed as the 'Athens of West Africa', had degenerated into a savage battlefield, overtaken by rebel forces in a devastating civil war. Assigned to spearhead the mission as UN peacekeeper was Major Phil Ashby. But by 2000, the rebel occupation he had worked so diligently to disarm rose again to control an astounding two-thirds of the country. The enemy's mission: get rid of the outside opposition first. A number of Ashby's colleagues were tortured and finally butchered, and more than 500 were taken as hostages. Among the hostages was Phil Ashby. Miles from civilization, with no rescue in sight, Ashby and three of his men knew that their fate was up to them alone. Lost deep inside the rebels' heartland, unarmed, and outnumbered 20-to-1, Ashby devised a plan to escape from the hostile jungles that would test fate and challenge all reason.