Peace operations are considered to be hard to solve but Sierra Leone is by many thought to be a success despite major problems during the operations. Solving this conflict involved several dif-ferent actors which all contributed to the creating of peace. The purpose of this essay is to examine whether similarities between the way the conflict in Sierra Leone was solved and the method that Galula presents led to the positive outcome. This will be done by a qualitative textual analysis to demonstrate presence and absence of those parts that Galula claim are crucial to counter an insur-gency. Similarities between the method used at the solving of the conflict in Sierra Leone and Galulas method for counterinsurgency can be found. The similarities are not sufficient enough to claim that it was thanks to similarities to Galulas methods that peace was restored in Sierra Leone. / Fredsoperationer anses av många vara svåra att lösa men i Sierra Leone lyckades man trots att man stötte på stora problem under historiens gång. Vid lösandet av denna konflikt användes ett flertal olika aktörer som alla bidrog till skapandet av fred. Syftet med denna uppsats är att under-söka huruvida likheter mellan sättet man löste konflikten på och Galulas metod för upprorsbe-kämpning ledde till den positiva utgång man hade i fallet. Detta kommer att genomföras genom en kvalitativ textanalys för att påvisa förekomster och avsaknad av de delar som Galula menar är avgörande för att stävja ett uppror. Likheter mellan metoden som man använde sig av vid lösandet av konflikten i Sierra Leone och Galulas metod för upprorsbekämpning går att finna. Likheterna är inte tillräckligt stora för att kunna påstå att det beror på likheter med Galulas arbetssätt som man lyckades uppnå fred i landet.

Ce mémoire se propose d'examiner la guerre civile en Sierra Leone qui s'est déroulée de 1991 à 2002. Cet événement est extrêmement complexe, voire même unique, en raison de son histoire particulière. Les sources du conflit sont variées et ont des causes politiques, sociologiques, économiques et historiques. Pourquoi le conflit sierra-léonais a-t-il duré pendant plus de dix ans et cela malgré de nombreux efforts visant à mettre un terme au conflit? Afin de répondre à cette question, ce mémoire analyse les différentes dimensions de la guerre civile en Sierra Leone. Il débute par un survol historique afin de comprendre l'origine du conflit. Ensuite, il examine la fragilité de l'État sierra-léonais pendant la guerre et tente d'expliquer pourquoi la faiblesse de l'État a causé l'émergence des forces rebelles. Il se penche ensuite sur l'enjeu du diamant dans le conflit, puis se termine par une analyse des aspects internationaux qui ont influé sur le déroulement de la guerre en Sierra Leone, y compris l'instabilité régionale en Afrique de l'Ouest, le financement des rebelles, le manque de soutien de la part de la communauté internationale, ainsi que les différentes interventions régionales, britanniques et onusiennes. Malgré le nombre important de facteurs qui ont contribué à la poursuite du conflit, ce mémoire prétend que c'est la fragilité de l'État qui en est la cause majeure. En particulier, cette fragilité repose sur l'absence de structures suffisamment fortes pour maintenir l'ordre en Sierra Leone pendant la guerre. Tous les autres facteurs auraient eu moins d'effets à court et à long termes s'il y avait eu un État stable en Sierra Leone. Aujourd'hui, l'espoir règne en Sierra Leone, mais la reconstruction du pays reste importante pour qu'il puisse se redresser suite aux séquelles de la guerre. Le gouvernement sierra-léonais doit renforcer ses institutions nationales et mettre l'accent sur la protection de ses ressources naturelles, soit les diamants. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Sierra Leone, Guerre civile, Instabilité régionale, RUF, Diamant

The high rate of malnutrition (180/1000 live births) in Sierra Leone (U N Demographic Year Book, 1985) has become a major concern to the government, development agencies, medical and nutritional personnel. This study was designed to determine whether there were any significant differences between the nutritional status of the children women who participated in an FAO project and those who did not and was conducted in six villages in the Koinadugu District of Sierra Leone.By referring to a list of local protein rich foods, three-day recall of food frequency was done to estimate the protein intake. Anthropometric measures were collected and body mass index was determined. All measures were compared with standards for African-American population.The weight-for-age was significantly greater for the the 50th percentile than that of the non-project children (NPC). Protein intake less than the average of 57 grams, were seen among older children with lower weight-for -height percentile, suggesting that total food intake was inadequate for the older children. This researcher believes that the FAO project should continue but that nutrition education should be an important component of the program. / Department of Home Economics

Humboldt-Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2007.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of English, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Apr. 7, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-220). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

This study will examine political party systems, with particular emphasis on the impact of ethnicity on party formation in both Nigeria (1951-1961) and Sierra Leone (1950-1967). Particularly in terms of this study, the hypothesis will be advanced that in countries as ethnically divided as Nigeria and Sierra Leone, political parties formed from a nucleus of members from one or another subsystem, such as an ethnic group, which engage in competitive elections will create sectional and ethnic tensions. The major finding of the study, is that a country or countries with sharp ethnic-cleavages, will tend to produce a multi-party system unless there are intervening factors to mitigate against such party-formation. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (MDF (Development Finance))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / Financial Services Associations (FSAs) have been established in Sierra Leone as a new form of shareholder-owned village bank since 2007, as part of an ongoing IFAD programme to assist the development of rural finance. This research report is a case study examining the viability of the FSA concept in the Sierra Leonean context, particularly with reference to previous research findings in other countries in Africa, and it includes a field survey within the communities and amongst the staff and board members of the FSAs. The findings of the study reveal a wide acceptance amongst the village communities of both the structure of the institutions and the products and services that they are capable of offering. There was no evidence of the abuse of their positions by the members of the boards with regard to their own loans and repayments, as had been reported in other studies. However, there is a pressing need for further staff training and sensitisation of the communities regarding their rights as shareholders. There is also a need for further injections of capital, and the study recommends the introduction of a wide range of additional products and services and the establishment of links with other financial institutions, such as community banks and commercial banks. It was found that there are considerable demands on IFAD’s management unit that is responsible for the FSAs. These demands are growing as the number of FSAs increases, and it is recommended that this unit be strengthened before continuing its expansion programme, to enable it to consolidate its strengths before its activities are dispersed too widely.

The thesis is an annotated edition of Limba folktales or "oral literature". This is unusual in recent British anthropology in spite of the earlier interest in the subject, mainly because of the reaction against evolutionism, and the more recent structuralist and functionalist approach. Various approaches to folktales and myth are laid aside as irrelevant or unhelpful. The senses in which linguistic, structural and, in particular, sociological approaches are relevant to the present study are discussed, and various criticisms made of the narrowness or misleading implications of the more recent "sociological" attitudes to oral literature in non-literate societies. The present approach is to treat such material as having the status of literature ("oral literature"), rather than as being in some way utilitarian, and to relate the stories to their social background, discuss their contents, categories, delivery, and narrators systematically, and discover something of what they mean to those telling and hearing them.

This study is about peace building in Sierra Leone, during and after the civil war (1991-2002). The initial hypothesis was that the impact of externally driven peace building activities was reduced because of insufficient attention to local culture and priorities. This hypothesis was underpinned by a number of assumptions based on the author’s personal experience and the views of Sierra Leoneans met in the early post-war period.