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Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone?

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'In a very real sense, the conditions that spawned the war and inflicted gruesome casualties on Sierra Leone's citizens have not disappeared', warned the International Crisis Group. In this paper we argue that many of those conditions are being recreated. The same old men who were responsible for the war are still in power, both in government and in a reinstated chieftaincy system, and corruption is still endemic, while young people remain jobless and largely uneducated.

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  • Joseph Hanlon, 2005. "Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone?," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-50, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. World Bank, 2003. "Sierra Leone : Strategic Options for Public Sector Reform," World Bank Publications - Reports 14633, The World Bank Group.
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