Sierra Leone

Literature on Gender

Amnesty International

2000
Childhood, A casuality of conflict, AI Publication, AFR 51/069/2000, London.
2000
Sierra Leone: Rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls, AFR 51/035/2000, London.
2005
Sierra Leone, No one to turn to, Women’s lack of access to justice in rural Sierra Leone, AI Publication, AFR 51/011/2005, London.
2006
Sierra Leone, Women face human rights abuses in the informal legal sector, AI Publication AFR 51/002/2006, London.

Aning, E.K.

1998
Gender and civil war, The cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia, in: Civil Wars, 1, 4, pp.1-26.
2003
Regulating illicit trade in natural resources, The role of regional actors in West Africa, in: Review of African Political Economy, no. 95, S.99-107.
2005
The challenges of civil wars to multilateral interventions, UN, ECOWAS, and complex political emergencies in West Africa, A critical analysis, in: African and Asian Studies, vol. 4, no. 1-2, S.1-20.

Annowitz, Lynn et al.

2002
Prevalence of war-related sexual violence and other human rights abuses among internally displaced persons in Sierra Leone, in : JAMA, 23/30, 287, 4.

Bartel, Doris / Lindsey, Diane et al.

2004
Tackling HIV/AIDS in post-war Sierra Leone, in: Forced Migration Review, vol. 19, S.24-25.

Bouta, Tsjeard / Frerks, Georg / Hughes, Bib

2005
Gender and peacemaking in the Westafrican context, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, ‘Clingendael’, Conflict Research Unit, The Hague.

Coomaraswamy, Radhika

2001
Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective, Violence against women, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, Submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2001/49, Addendum, Mission to Sierra Leone, 21-29 August 2001, E/CN.4/2002/83/Add.2, New York/Geneva.

Coulter, Chris

2006
Being a bush wife, Women’s lives through war and peace in Northern Sierra Leone, PhD thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala.

CWHRCS – Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations

2003
Submission by the Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Sierra Leone, Freetown/Montreal.

Denov, Myriam / Maclure, Richard

2006
Engaging the voices of girls in the aftermath of Sierra Leone's conflict, Experiences and perspectives in a culture of violence, in: Anthropologica (New Series), vol. 48, no. 1, S.73-85
2007
Negotiating (in)security, Agency, resistance, and resourcefulness among girls formerly associated with the Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front, in: Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 4, S.885-910.

Ferris, Elizabeth

2007
Abuse of power, Sexual exploitation of refugee women and girls, in: Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 3, S.584-591.

Harsch, Ernest

2001
Women, Africa’s ignored combatants, in: Africa Recovery, vol. 19, no. 3, S.17-18.

Higate, Paul

2004
Gender and peacekeeping, Case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, ISS Monographs, no. 91, Pretoria.
2005
Peacekeeping and gender, DRC and Sierra Leone. www.peacewomen.org

Higate, Paul / Henry, Marsha

2004
Engendering (in)security in peace support operations, in: Security Dialogue, vol. 35, no. 4, S.481-498.

Human Rights Watch

2003
“We’ll kill you if you cry”, Sexual violence in the Sierra Leone conflict, Human Rights Watch, vol. 15, no. 1, New York.

Jusu-Sheriff, Yasmin

2000
Sierra Leonean women and the peace process, ACCORD, London.

King, Jamesina

2005
Gender and reparations in Sierra Leone, in: Rubio-Marin, Ruth (ed.): Engendering reparations, Recognising and compensating women victims of human rights violations, International Centre for Transitional Justice, Freetown / New York.

Larsen, Mandi / Casey, Sara et al.

2004
Changes in HIV/AIDS/STI knowledge, attitudes and practices among commercial sex workers and military forces in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, in: Disasters, vol. 28, no. 3, S.239-254.

Mansaray, Binta

2000
Women against weapons, A leading role for women in disarmament, in: Ayissi, Anatole / Poulton, Robin-Edward (eds.): Bound to cooperate, Conflict, peace and people in Sierra Leone, UNIDIR-Publications, Geneva, S.139-162.

Mazurana, Dylan / Carlson, Christopher

2004
From combat to community, Women and girls in Sierra Leone, Women Wging peace, Washington D.C.

McKay, Susan

2005a
Girls as ‘weapons of terror’ in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leonean rebel fighting forces, in. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, vol. 28, S.385-397.
2005b
Reconstructing fragile lives, Girls’ social reintegration in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, in: Sweetman, Caroline (ed.): Gender, peace building and reconstruction, Oxfam Publications, Oxford, S.18-30.

McKay, Susan / Mazurana, Dyan

2004
Where are the girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique, Their lives during and after war, Publications of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Government, Montreal.

Molloy, Desmond

2004
The gender perspective as a deterrants to spoilers, The Sierra Leone experience, in: Conflict Trends, vol. 2, S.16-19.

Nkuuhe, Jessica

2005
Nurturers of peace, Sustainers of Africa, Selected women’s peace initiatives, ISIS Publication, Kampala.

Olson, Einar Odd / Scharffscher, Kristin

2004
Rape in refugee camps as organisational failures, in: International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 8, no. 4, S.377-397.

Physicians for Human Rights / UNAMSIL

2002
War related sexual violence in Sierra Leone, Study, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston/Cambridge.

Puechgirbal, Nadine

2004
Involving women in peace process, Lessons from four African countries (Burundi, DRC, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in: Karamé, Kari (ed.): Gender and peacebuilding in Africa, Training for Peace Programme, Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo, S.47-66.

Sesay, Kadi

2005
Sierra Leone, Women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, in: Rawwida / Etchart, Linda / Onubogu, Elsie / Johnson, Tina (eds.): Building sustainable peace, Gender mainstreaming in conflict transformation, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 183-190.

Rehn, Elisabeth / Sirleaf, Johnson Ellen

2002
Women, war peace, The independent experts’ assessement, Progress of the world’s women, vol. 1, UNIFEM, New York.

Rubio-Marín, Ruth ed.

2006
What happened to the women? Gender and reparations for human rights violations, Social Science Research Council, New York.

Schroven, Anita

2006
Women after war, Gender mainstreaming and the social construction of identity in contemporary Sierra Leone, Lit-Verlag, Münster.

Sesay, Fatmata Lovetta

2004
Where there is no ‘safe haven’, Human rights abuses of Sierra Leonean women at home and in exile, in: Agenda, no. 59, S.22-31.

Sesay, Kadi

2005
Sierra Leone, Women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, in: Rawwida / Etchart, Linda / Onubogu, Elsie / Johnson, Tina (eds.): Building sustainable peace, Gender mainstreaming in conflict transformation, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 183-190.

Shepler, Susan

2002
Les filles-soldats, Trajectories d’après-guerre en Sierra Leone, in: Politique Africaine, no. 88, S.49-62.

Solomon, Christiana

2005
The Mano River Union Sub-Region, The role of women in building peace, in: Baksh, Rawwida / Etchart, Linda / Onubogu, Elsie / Johnson, Tina (eds.): Building sustainable peace, Gender mainstreaming in conflict transformation, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, S.171-180.

Staggs Kelsall, Michelle / Stepakoff, Shanee

2007
‘When we wanted to talk about rape’: Silencing sexual violence at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, in: International Journal of Transitional Justice, 1, S.355-374.

Tripodi, Paolo / Patel, Preeti

2002
The global impact of HIV/AIDS on peace support operations, in: International Peacekeeping, vol. 9, no. 3, S.51-66.

UNICEF

2005
The impact of conflict on women and girls in West and Central Africa, New York.

UNHCR / Save the Children

2001
Sexual violence and exploitation, The experience of refugee children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, unpublished report, UNHCR / Save the Children Publication, Geneva / London.

UNHCR / UNESCO et al.

2001
Best practices in peace buildung and non-violent conflict resolution, Some documented African Women’s Peace Initiatives, UNHCR / UNESCO Publication, Geneva/Paris.

Van Gogh, Janneke

2008
Coming back from the bush, Gender, youth and re-integration in Northern Sierra Leone, African Studies Collection, 9, African Studies Centre, Leiden.

Vann, Beth

2002
Gender-based violence, Emerging issues in programs serving displaced populations, Repoductive Health for Refugees Consortium, Publication of the JSI Research and Training Institute, Arlington.

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children (WCRWC)

2002a
Precious resources, Adolescents in the reonstruction of Sierra Leone, Participatory research study with adolescents and youth in Sierra Leone, Publication of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, New York.
2002b
Voting for peace, survival and self-reliance, Internally displaced women got to the polls in Sierra Leone, Publication of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, New York.

Background Information

Abdullah, Ibrahim

2005
‘I am a rebel’, Youth culture and violence in Sierra Leone, in: Honwana, Alicinda / De Boeck, Filip (eds.): Makers and breakers, Children and youth in postcolonial Africa, James Currey, Oxford, S.172-187.

Adebajo, Adekeye

2002
Peace building in West Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Bisseau, Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

Alie, Joe

1990
A new history of Sierra Leone, Macmillan Publishers, London, Houndsmills/Basingstoke.

Amnesty International

2000
Childhood, A casuality of conflict, AI Publication, AFR 51/069/2000, London.
2000
Sierra Leone: Rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls, AFR 51/035/2000, London.
2005
Sierra Leone, No one to turn to, Women’s lack of access to justice in rural Sierra Leone, AI Publication, AFR 51/011/2005, London.
2006
Sierra Leone, Women face human rights abuses in the informal legal sector, AI Publication AFR 51/002/2006, London.
2006
Getting reparations right for survivors of sexual violence, AI Publication, London.

Aning, E.K.

1998
Gender and civil war, The cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia, in: Civil Wars, 1, 4, pp.1-26.
2003
Regulating illicit trade in natural resources, The role of regional actors in West Africa, in: Review of African Political Economy, no. 95, S.99-107.
2005
The challenges of civil wars to multilateral interventions, UN, ECOWAS, and complex political emergencies in West Africa, A critical analysis, in: African and Asian Studies, vol. 4, no. 1-2, S.1-20.

Aning, Emmanuel Kwesi / McIntyre, Angela

2005
From youth to rebellion to abduction, The anatomy of recruitment in Sierra Leone, in: McIntyre, Angela (ed.): Invisible stakeholders, Children and war in Africa, ISS Publications, Pretoria, S.67-86.

Archibald, Steven / Richards, Paul

2002a
Convents to human rights? Popular debate about war and justice in rural central Sierra Leone, in: Africa, vol. 72, no. 3, S.339-367.
2002b
Seeds and rights, New approaches to postwar agricultural rehabilitation in Sierra Leone, in: Disasters, vol. 26, no. 4, S.356-367.

Baker, Bruce

2006
Beyond the state police in urban Uganda and Sierra Leone, in: Afrika Spectrum, 41, 1, S.55-76.

Bangura, Yusuf

2000
Strategic policy failure and governance in Sierra Leone, in: Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 38, S.551-577.

Barnes, Karen Albrecht, Peter Olson, Maria

2007
Addressing gender-based violence in Sierra Leone: Mapping challenges, responses and future entry points, International Alert, London

Bartel, Doris / Lindsey, Diane et al.

2004
Tackling HIV/AIDS in post-war Sierra Leone, in: Forced Migration Review, vol. 19, S.24-25.

Carey, Martha

2006
‘Survival is political’, History, violence and contemporary power struggle in Sierra Leone, in: Bay, Edna / Donham, Donald (eds.): States of violence, Politics, youth and memory in contemporary Africa, University of Virginia Press, Chalottesville, S.97-126.

Conteh-Morgan, Earl / Dixon-Fyle, Mac

1999
Sierra Leone at the end of the twentieth century, History, politics and society, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt.

Coomaraswamy, Radhika

2001
Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective, Violence against women, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, Submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2001/49, Addendum, Mission to Sierra Leone, 21-29 August 2001, E/CN.4/2002/83/Add.2, New York/Geneva.

CWHRCS – Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations

2003
Submission by the Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Sierra Leone, Freetown/Montreal.

Damme, Wim van

1999
How Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees settled in the forest region of Guinea (1990-1996), in: Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 12, S.36-53.

Denov, Myriam / Maclure, Richard

2007
Negotiating (in)security, Agency, resistance, and resourcefulness among girls formerly associated with the Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front, in: Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 4, S.885-910.

Dougherty, B.K.

2004
Right-sizing international criminal justice: The hybrid experiment at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, in: International Affairs, 80, 2, S.311-328.

Fanthorpe, Richard

2001
Neither citizen nor subject? 'Lumpen' agency and the legacy of native administration in Sierra Leone, in: African Affairs, 100/400, S.363-386.
2005
On the limits of liberal peace, Chiefs and democratic decentralization in post-war Sierra Leone, in: African Affairs, 105/418, S.27-40.

Faulkner, Frank

2001
Kindergarten killers, Morality, murder and the child soldier problem, in: Third World Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, S.491-504.

Fayemi, J.K.

2004
Governing insecurity in post-conflict states, The case of Sierra Leone and Liberia, in: Bryden, A. / Hänggi, H. (eds.): Reform and reconstruction of the security sector, Lit-Verlag, Münster, S.2-27.

Ferme, Mariane

2001
The underneath of things, Violence, history and everyday in Sierra Leone, University of California Press, Berkeley.
2004
Deterritorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leone state, in: Das, Veena / Poole, Deborah (eds.): Anthropology at the margins of the state, James Currey, Oxford, S.81-116.

Ferme, Mariane / Hoffmann, Danny

2004
Hunter militaria and the international human rights discourse in Sierra Leone and beyond, in: Africa Today, vol. 50, no. 4, S.73-95.

Ferris, Elizabeth

2007
Abuse of power, Sexual exploitation of refugee women and girls, in: Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 3, S.584-591.

Fithen, Caspar / Richards, Paul

2005
Making war, crafting peace, Militia solidarities and demobilisation in Sierra Leone, in: Richards, Paul (ed.): No war, no peace, An anthropology of contemporary armed conflicts, Ohio University Press, Athens, S.117-136.

Francis, David

1999
Mercanary intervention in Sierra Leone, Providing national security or international exploitation, in: Third World Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, S.319-338.

Francis, David / Faal, Mohammed / Kabia, John / Ramsbotham, Alex

2005
UN-ECOWAS-ECOMOG Co-development in Sierra Leone, in: dieselben: Danger of co-development, UN co-operative peacekeeping in Africa, Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot, S.136-150.

Fuest, Veronika

1999
Lokales Wissen im Schulunterricht, in: Entwicklungsethnologie, 8, 1, S.70-87.

Gberi, Lansana

2005
A dirty war in West Africa, The RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone, Hurst Publishers, London.

Gbla, Osman

2006
Security sector reform under international tutelage in Sierra Leone, in: International Peacekeeping, vol. 13, no. 1, S.78-93.

Grant, Andrew

2005
Diamonds, Foreign aid, and the uncertain prospects for post-conflict resolution in Sierra Leone, WIDER Research Paper, no. 49, Helsinki.
2005
Salone’s sorrow, The ominous legacy of diamonts in Sierra Leone, in: Mehler, Andreas / Basendu, M. (eds.): Resource politics in Sub-Saharan Africa, Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, S.259-281.

Higate, Paul

2004
Gender and peacekeeping, Case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, ISS Monographs, no. 91, Pretoria.
2005
Peacekeeping and gender, DRC and Sierra Leone. www.peacewomen.org

Higate, Paul / Henry, Marsha

2004
Engendering (in)security in peace support operations, in: Security Dialogue, vol. 35, no. 4, S.481-498.

Hirsch, John

2001
Sierra Leone, Diamonds and the struggle for democracy, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder.

Hoffman, Danny

2004
The civilian target in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Political power, military strategy, and humanitarian intervention, in: African Affairs, vol. 103, S.211-226.

Human Rights Watch

1998
Sierra Leone, Sowing terror, Artrocities against civilians in Sierra Leone, vol. 10, no. 3 (A), Human Rights Watch Publications, New York.
2003
“We’ll kill you if you cry”, Sexual violence in the Sierra Leone conflict, Human Rights Watch Publications, vol. 15, no. 1 (A), New York.
2005
Justice in motion, The trial phase of the special court in Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch Publications, vol. 17, no. 14 (A), New York.

International Centre for Transtional Justice

2004
The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Reviewing its first year, New York.

International Crisis Group

2003
Sierra Leone, The state of security and governance, Africa Report, no. 67, Publication of the International Crisis Group, Brussels/New York.

Jackson, Michael

2004
In Sierra Leone, Duke University Press, Durham.

Jackson, Paul

2005
Chiefs, money and politicians, Rebuilding local government in post-war Sierra Leone, in: Public Administration and Development, vol. 25, no. 2, S.49-58.

Jalloh, Alusine

1997
Islam and trade in Sierra Leone, Africa World Press, Trenton.

Jusu-Sheriff, Yasmin

2000
Sierra Leonean women and the peace process, ACCORD, London.

Jung, Anne

2004
Neither war nor peace in Sierra Leone, in: Development and Cooperation, vol. 31, no. 4, S.152-154.
2004
Ungerechter Frieden, Eine Bilanz der humanitären Intervention in Sierra Leone, in: IZ3W, Nr. 277, S.9-11.
2006
Opfer ohne Reparation, in: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit, vol. 47, no. 1, S.30-31.
2008
Friedloser Frieden, in Sierra Leone ist die Kriegsökonomie noch lange nicht Geschichte, in: IZ3W, Nr. 304, S.28-29.

Kandeh, Jimmy

2002
Subaltern terror in Sierra Leone, in: Zack-Williams, Tunde / Frost, Diane / Thomson, Alex (eds.): Africa in crisis, New challenges and possibilities, Pluto Press, London, S.179-195.

Kandeh, Jimmy / Larémont, René / Cremona, Rachel

2005
Ethnicity and national identity in Sierra Leone, in: Larémont, René Ricardo (ed.): Borders, nationalism, and the African state, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, S.179-230.

Keen, David

2003
Greedy elites, dwindling resources, alienated youth, The anatomy of protracted violence in Sierra Leone, in: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, Nr. 2, S.67-94.
2005
Conflict and collusion in Sierra Leone, James Currey, Oxford.

Kelsall, Tim

2005
Truth, lies, ritual, Preliminary reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone, in: Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 2, S.361-391.

Knörr, Jacqueline

1995
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung als Kategorien kultureller Differenzierung, Varianten neoafrikanischer Identität und Interethnik in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Lit-Verlag, Münster.

Kpundeh, Sahr John

1995
Politics and corruption in Africa, A case study of Sierra Leone, University Press of America, Lanham.

Laggah, John Bobor / Alie, Joe / Wright, Roland

1999
Sierra Leone, in: Adedeji, Adebayo (ed.): Comprehending and mastering African conflicts, The search for sustainable peace and good governance, Zed Books, London, S.174-188.

Lamin, Abdul Ramin

2004
Building peace through accountability in Sierra Leone, The Truth and Reconciliation Commmission and the Special Court, in: Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 38, no. 2-3, S.295-320.

Lange, Ralf

2005
Der Krieg entlässt seine Kinder, Reintegration militarisierter Jugendlicher durch berufliche Bildung, Das Beispiel Sierra Leone, in: Zeitschrift Entwicklungspolitik, 1-2, S.29-32.

Larsen, Mandi / Casey, Sara et al.

2004
Changes in HIV/AIDS/STI knowledge, attitudes and practices among commercial sex workers and military forces in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, in: Disasters, vol. 28, no. 3, S.239-254.

Lidsba, Stephen / Klatte, Lars

2005
‘Peace enforcement’ und ‘peace keeping’, Die Mission der Vereinten Nationen in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), in: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspolitik, 11, S.52-54.

Maconachie, Roy / Binns, Tony

2007
Beyond greed and grievance in Sierra Leone, in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, Jg. 51, Heft 3-4, S.163-175.

Malan, Mark / Rakete, Phenyo / McIntyre, Angela

2002
Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL hits the home straight, ISS Monograph Series, no. 68, Publications of the Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria.

Malan, Mark / Meek, Sarah / Thusi, Thokozani et al. (eds.)

2003
Sierra Leone, Building the road to recovery, ISS Monograph Series, no. 80, Publications of the Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria.

Mansaray, Binta

2000
Women against weapons, A leading role for women in disarmament, in: Ayissi, Anatole / Poulton, Robin-Edward (eds.): Bound to cooperate, Conflict, peace and people in Sierra Leone, UNIDIR-Publications, Geneva, S.139-162.

Mazurana, Dyan / Carlson, Christopher

2004
From combat to community, Women and girls in Sierra Leone, Women Waging Peace Publications, Cambridge M.A.

McKay, Susan

2005a
Girls as ‘weapons of terror’ in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leonean rebel fighting forces, in. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, vol. 28, S.385-397.
2005b
Reconstructing fragile lives, Girls’ social reintegration in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, in: Sweetman, Caroline (ed.): Gender, peace building and reconstruction, Oxfam Publications, Oxford, S.18-30.

McKay, Susan / Mazurana, Dyan

2004
Where are the girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique, Their lives during and after war, Publications of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Government, Montreal.

Molloy, Desmond

2004
The gender perspective as a deterrants to spoilers, The Sierra Leone experience, in: Conflict Trends, vol. 2, S.16-19.

Muana, Patrick

1997
The Kamajoi militaria, Violence, internal displacement and the politics of counter-insurgency, in: Africa Development, vol. 22, no. 3-4, S.77-101.

Nkuuhe, Jessica

2005
Nurturers of peace, Sustainers of Africa, Selected women’s peace initiatives, ISIS Publication, Kampala.

Ofuatey-Kodjoe, W.

2003
Sierra Leone, in: Boulden, Jane (ed.): Dealing with conflict in Africa, The United Nations and regional organizations, Palgrave, New York, S.127-152.

Olson, Einar Odd / Scharffscher, Kristin

2004
Rape in refugee camps as organisational failures, in: International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 8, no. 4, S.377-397.

Peters, Krijn

2005
Reintegrating young ex-combatants in Sierra Leone, Accommodating indigenous and wartime value systems, in: Abbink, Jon / van Kessel, Ineke (eds.): Vanguards or vandals, Youth politics and conflict in Africa, Brill Publishers, Leiden, S.267-295.
2007
Reintegration support for young ex-combatants, A right or a privilege? in: International Migration, vol. 45, no. 5, S.35-59.

Peters, Krijn / Richards, Paul

1998
“Why we fight”, Voices of youth combatants in Sierra Leone, in: Africa, vol. 68, no. 2, S.183-210.

Physicians for Human Rights / UNAMSIL

2002
War related sexual violence in Sierra Leone, Study, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston/Cambridge.

Puechgirbal, Nadine

2004
Involving women in peace process, Lessons from four African countries (Burundi, DRC, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in: Karamé, Kari (ed.): Gender and peacebuilding in Africa, Training for Peace Programme, Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, Oslo, S.47-66.

Radeke, Helen

2007
Wie Phönix aus der Asche, Der Stand der Friedenskonsolidierung in Sierra Leone nach den Wahlen 2006, BICC Focus, 6, BICC, Bonn.

Rehn, Elisabeth / Sirleaf, Johnson Ellen

2002
Women, war peace, The independent experts’ assessement, Progress of the world’s women, vol. 1, UNIFEM, New York.

Remmert-Fontes, Inge / Alf, Ulrich

2002
Review of the GTZ reintegration programme in war-affected communities in Sierra Leone, SLE Studie 194, Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung, Humboldt Universität, Berlin.

Reno, William

1995
Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
1997
Humanitarian emergencies and warlord economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Working Paper no. 140, World Institute for Development Research, United Nations University, Helsinki.
2003
Political networks in a failing state, The roots and future of violent conflict in Sierra Leone, in: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, Nr. 2, S.44-66.
2006
The political economy of order adminst predation in Sierra Leone, in: Bay, Edna / Donham, Donald (eds.): States of violence, Politics, youth and memory in contemporary Africa, University of Virginia Press, Chalottesville, S.37-57.

Richards, Paul

1994
Videos and violence on the periphery, Rambo and war in the forests of the Sierra Leone – Liberia border, in: IDS Bulletin, vol. 25, no. 2, S.88-93.
1995
Rebellion in Liberia and Sierra Leone, A crisis of youth? in: Furley, Oliver (ed.): Conflict in Africa, I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, S.134-170.
1996a
The Sierra Leone-Liberia boundary wilderness, Rain forests, diamonds and war, in: Nugent, Paul / Asiwaju, A.I. (eds.): African boundaries, Barriers, conduits and opportunities, Pinter Press, London, S.205-221.
1996b
Fighting the rain forest, War, youth and resources in Sierra Leone, James Currey, Oxford/London.
1997
Soccer and violence in war-torn Africa, Soccer and social rehabilitation in Sierra Leone, in: Armstrong, Gary / Giulianotti, Richard (eds.): Entering the field, New perspectives on world football, Berg Publishers, Oxford, S.141-157.
1999a
New political violence in Africa, Secular sectarianism in Sierra Leone, in: GeoJournal, no. 47, S.433-442.
1999b
The social life of war, Rambo, diamonds and young soldiers in Sierra Leone, in: Track Two, vol. 8, no. 1, S.16-21.
2001
Are ‘forest’ wars in Africa resource conflicts? The case of Sierra Leone, in: Peluso, N.L. / Watts, M. (eds.): Violent environments, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, S.65-82.
2002
Military conscription in Sierra Leone, Recruitment of young fighters in an African war, in: Comparative Social Research, 20, S.255-276.
2003
The political economy of internal conflict in Sierra Leone, CRU Working Paper, no. 21, Clingendael Institute, The Hague.
2005a
Green book millenarians? The Sierra Leone war within the perspective of an anthropology of religion, in: Kastfelt, Niels (ed.): Religion and African civil wars, Hurst Publishers, London, S.119-146.
2005b
To fight or to farm? Agrarian dimensions of the Mano River conflicts (Liberia and Sierra Leone), in: African Affairs, 104/417, S.571-590.
2006c
War as smoke and mirrors, Sierra Leone 1991-1992, 1994-95, 1995-96, in: Anthropological Quarterly, 28, S.377-402.
2006a
The history and future of African rice, Food security and survival in a West African war zone, in: Africa Spectrum, no. 41, 1, S.77-93.
2006b
Forced labour and civil war, Agrarian underpinnings of the Sierra Leone conflict, in: Kaarsholm, Preben (ed.): Violence, political culture and development in Africa, James Currey, Oxford, S.181-200.
2006c
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