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United Nations peace building in Sierra Leone

17 Nov 2014

If elites genuinely represent their society, as they of conflict in Sierra Leone today, and the nature of the often claim to, the top-down nature of the first peace is not issue provides ample opportunity to include civil society organizations (CSOs) and youth themselves in peace 1 In the case of Sierra Leone, the first peace arose from the 1999 Lomé building. [...] As just one example of the limitation of the first peace, the based upon interviews conducted in September 2012 and Lomé accord installed Foday Sankoh, the leader of the rebel army the March 2013 with UN personnel, government officials and Revolutionary United Front (RUF) which was responsible for the worst atrocities inflicted upon Sierra Leone, as vice president of the country civil society repr [...] In such instances, it compares and contrasts understandings of the causes of the exclusions, shortcomings and incompletion of the first violence, the strategies appropriate to redress them and peace necessitate the creation of a “second peace” that theories of social and political change utilized by actors extends the peace to society more broadly by ensuring working at different scales. [...] In the latter operationalization, the vertical of the conflict recently past, the second aspires to create integration concept looks for mechanisms and procedures political processes that can manage the actors, conditions that link the efforts of international, national and local and drivers that might ignite violent conflict in the future. [...] The United Nations works with the government, and the which invokes the root causes of conflict in the country.
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Lawrence, Michael M

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Ottawa, Ontario

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