scholarly journals Epidemics and community conflicts: the value of indigenous institutions in addressing development shocks in rural Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Yei Mokuwa
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Indigenous Institutions ◽  
Community Conflicts

Company–Community Conflicts Over Diamond Resources in Kono District, Sierra Leone

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigismond A. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Kono District ◽  
Community Conflicts

Fighting for black stone: extractive conflict, institutional change and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Mckenzie F Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Governance Reform ◽  
Governance Capacity ◽  
Black Stone ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Indigenous Institutions ◽  
Mineral Rights ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Abstract Environmental governance reform—especially in the minerals sector—has featured prominently in Sierra Leone's peacebuilding agenda. While reform has enhanced environmental governance capacity in ways that foster peace, it has also exacerbated conflict over the redistribution of extractive rights. This article examines one such conflict over tantalite in northern Sierra Leone. In the chiefdom of Sella Limba, violence erupted as local landowners and a multinational company utilized institutional hybridity—or the blending of informal–indigenous institutions with liberal reforms—to construct competing claims over mineral rights. The resulting uncertainty over the extractive ‘rules of the game’ accelerated conflict as stakeholders attempted to (re)negotiate the distributional consequences of institutional change in real time. International and national actors ultimately rejected hybrid institutional arrangements on the grounds that they distorted post-conflict reforms and undermined peace. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork, I retrace the conflict to provide an alternative perspective. I contend that institutional hybridity served as a necessary component of, rather than barrier to, peacebuilding because it 1) opened space for diverse political participation in post-conflict environmental governance and 2) promoted greater political accountability and integration. These outcomes have been theorized as ways in which environmental reform can facilitate post-conflict peace. This argument aims to advance environmental peacebuilding theory by examining the conditions under which environmental governance reform contributes to post-conflict peacebuilding.

Abolition in Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Peter Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone

LXXX.—Two newPhlæothripidæfrom Sierra Leone

1936 ◽  
Vol 17 (97) ◽  
pp. 624-629
Author(s):  
H. Priesner
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone

Design and Evaluation of A Group Mental Health Intervention for Multi-Symptomatic War-Affected Youth in Sierra Leone

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Betancourt ◽  
Katrina Hann ◽  
Elizabeth Newnham ◽  
Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith ◽  
Nathan Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Mental Health Intervention

A Collaborative Model for Building Capacity in Mental Healthcare: Training and Supervision for the Youth Readiness Intervention in Sierra Leone

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Newnham ◽  
Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith ◽  
Nathan Hansen ◽  
Theresa Betancourt
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Collaborative Model ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Training And Supervision ◽  
Healthcare Training

Mission to Sierra Leone: Forgiveness in Spite of Human-Made Trauma

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer De Mucci
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone
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