Paying the price: The Sierra Leone peace process

Accord issue 9, Paying the price: The Sierra Leone peace process, explores this and earlier attempts to end the conflict. It draws valuable lessons from those peace processes including:

• the risk during negotiations of focusing on an individual leader in the belief that others will follow suit and accept a settlement

• a need for new approaches to deal with elusive and unpredictable armed groups.

Authors from within Sierra Leone and abroad focus on implementing the peace agreement and power-sharing, while also examining civil society’s role in the peace process. The publication also includes a timeline and the full peace accord texts, plus profiles of the main people involved in the conflict and peace process.