West Africa programme resources

Audio and video materials

• A path to peace (2004) A 30 minute video on community peacebuilding in south-eastern Sierra Leone, Conciliation Resources 2004. Copies available upon request. The film can be viewed on public.tv

Photographs

• View the Peace monitors photo gallery and the Images of Sierra Leone 2007 photo gallery.

Newsletters

• Peace, Security and Development Update, July 2007. The first issue of the newsletter from the Strengthening Citizen's Security project which analyses issues of security, peace, democracy and development in Sierra Leone and the Mano River sub-region in particular. The first issue looks at preparations for the 2007 elections.

Occasional papers and articles

• Negotiating non-violent relationships at local level in Sierra Leone. Reflections on community peace monitoring and the role of state institutions, Michael Hammer, Conciliation Resources, CCTS working paper, January 2006 

• Who do people turn to for policing in Sierra Leone?, Bruce Baker, article published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 23,3, Sept. 2005

• Vulnerability of border communities - are we protecting them enough? Mariama Conteh, Conciliation Resources in HRD Watch Vol 2, Issue 2, 2005, pp: 2-3.

• From the ground up: exploring dichotomies in grassroots peacebuilding, Celia McKeon, Conciliation Resources. October 2003. Uses the Sulima Fishing Community Development Project as a case study.

• A path to peace. Indigenous conflict transformation and peacebuilding in southern Sierra Leone. Article by Mariama Conteh, Conciliation Resources published by the Commonwealth Foundation. April 2004.

• Tackling Sierra Leone's youth crisis, Jeannette Eno, Conciliation Resources. Article published in the European Union ACP-EU Courier. May-June 2003. [pdf 64kb] 

• Sierra Leone elections - six-month extension implications and challenges, Dennis Bright, 2002

• Sierra Leone - the conflict and the world, Dennis Bright, 2001

Archive occasional papers

• The balancing act: the current situation regarding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission within the broader political and security framework, Dennis Bright, 2000
• Lomé is dead! Long live Lomé!, Dennis Bright, 2000
• Learning from the past to address current challenges Catharine Barnes, Tara Polzer, 2000
• Building mechanisms for conflict resolution in south-east Sierra Leone - the Sulima Fishing Community Development Project, John Massaquoi, 1999
• Resources, primary industry and conflict in Sierra Leone, Conciliation Resources, 1997
• Gender and conflict in Sierra Leone, Conciliation Resources, 1997
• Rural women and girls in the war in Sierra Leone, Khadija Alia Bah, 1997

Related Accord publications

• Choosing to engage: armed groups and peace processes, Accord - an international review of peace initiatives, Issue 16, edited by Robert Ricigliano, 2005
• Paying the price: the Sierra Leonean peace process, (Accord Issue 9) edited by David Lord, 2000
• The Liberian peace process, (Accord Issue 1) edited by Jeremy Armon and Andrew Carl, 1996

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