The Revolutionary United Front, Liberian Warlords and Civil War in Sierra Leone

2017 ◽  
pp. 251-275
Author(s):  
Usman A. Tar ◽  
Sharkdam Wapmuk
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
United Front

Justice for Child Soldiers? The RUF Trial of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gus Waschefort
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Child Soldier ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Specific Instance ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
United Front

AbstractThe Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was the primary agitator during the decade-long civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone. One of the hallmarks of RUF tactics was the abduction and military use of children. The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) issued an indictment against the high-command of the RUF. Each of the accused was charged with the enlistment, conscription or use of child soldiers. The Prosecutor v. Sesay, Kallon and Gbao case (RUF case) provides a cogent account of the crime of conscripting or using children younger than fifteen in hostilities. This paper tracks the development of the growing child soldier jurisprudence and plots the contribution of the RUF case. Specific emphasis is placed on the Court's application of abstract concepts to concrete situations, e.g. the determination whether a specific instance of child soldier use amounts to the child's 'active participation in hostilities'. The paper follows a progression whereby the chapeau requirements of Article 4 of the Statute of the SCSL are first assessed and thereafter the actus reus and mens rea elements of the substantive crime of enlisting, conscripting or using children in hostilities are examined in light of the RUF case.

scholarly journals Using Power-Sharing to Win a War: The Implementation of the Lomé Agreement in Sierra Leone

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helga Malmin Binningsbø ◽  
Kendra Dupuy
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
United Front ◽  
The Government

To end the civil war in Sierra Leone the government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) signed a peace agreement guaranteeing power-sharing in July 1999. Such power-sharing is a widely used, often recommended political arrangement to overcome deep divisions between groups. However, scholars disagree on whether power-sharing causes peace, or, on the contrary, causes continuing violence. One reason for this is the literature's tendency to neglect how power-sharing is actually put into place. But post-agreement implementation is essential if we are to judge the performance of power-sharing. Therefore, we investigate the role played by power-sharing in terminating the civil war in Sierra Leone. We argue that the government was able to use the peace agreement to pursue its goal of ending the war through marginalising the RUF.

scholarly journals The Sierra Leone conflict: The Plight of Refugees and the Displaced

Refuge ◽  
1997 ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Veronica Nmoma
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
United Front

As a result of the Liberian civil war, Sierra Leone became simultaneously a major generator and receiver of refugees. Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic front of Liberia, along with Sierra Leone's Fodiy Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) incursion into Sierra Leone in March 1991, had a profound impact resulting in at least 10,000 casualties, about a million internally displaced peoples and some 300,000 refugees in neighbouring states. This paper argues that the RUF objective was unclear all along, as it lacked ideology and that, even now, it has yet to put forward a coherent program.

Enslaving Globalization: Slavery, Civil War, and Modernity in Sierra Leone

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone

Language Movement and Civil War in West Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ericka A. Albaugh
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Language Spread ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines how civil war can influence the spread of language. Specifically, it takes Sierra Leone as a case study to demonstrate how Krio grew from being primarily a language of urban areas in the 1960s to one spoken by most of the population in the 2000s. While some of this was due to “normal” factors such as population movement and growing urbanization, the civil war from 1991 to 2002 certainly catalyzed the process of language spread in the 1990s. Using census documents and surveys, the chapter tests the hypothesis at the national, regional, and individual levels. The spread of a language has political consequences, as it allows for citizen participation in the political process. It is an example of political scientists’ approach to uncovering the mechanisms for and evidence of language movement in Africa.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Timo Kallinen ◽  
Michael D. Jackson ◽  
Gisela Welz ◽  
Hastings Donnan ◽  
Jeevan Raj Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Duke University ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The Republic

Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil Andrea Behrends, Stephen P. Reyna, and Günter Schlee, eds. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. 325 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-85745-255-9.The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia Danny Hoffman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 295 pp. Paper ISBN 978-0-8223-5077-4.The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity Yael Navaro-Yashin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 270 pp. Paper ISBN 978-0-8223-5204-4.The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia Vasiliki P. Neofotistos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 216 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4399-4.Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War Judith Pettigrew. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 200 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4492-2.In Memoriam

scholarly journals Civil War and Labor-Market Outcomes in Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mboutchouang Vincent de Paul ◽  
Jorge Dávalos ◽  
James Fomba Sandy ◽  
Isata Mahoi ◽  
Jennifer Korie Chetachi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes

scholarly journals Impact of civil war on emotion recognition: the denial of sadness in Sierra Leone

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Allessandra Umiltà ◽  
Rachel Wood ◽  
Francesca Loffredo ◽  
Roberto Ravera ◽  
Vittorio Gallese
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Sierra Leone
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