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Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone
No full textThis thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. While fully aware of the critique of the concept of culture in terms of its uses for the production of difference and ‘otherness,’ it also seeks to respond to the critique of liberal peacebuilding on the account of its low sensitivity towards local culture, which allegedly undermines the peace effort. After a careful examination of the terms of discussion about culture enabled by theoretical approaches to conflict in Chapter 2, the thesis presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of cultural aspects of conflict and peace based on the processes and effects of meaning-generation (Chapter 3), developing the conceptual apparatus and vocabulary for the subsequent empirical study. Instead of bracketing out the recursive nature of cultural theorising, the developed approach embraces the recursive dynamics which arise as a result of cultural ‘embeddedness’ of the analyst and the processes which s/he seeks to elucidate, mirroring similar dynamics in the cultural production of meaning and knowledge. The framework of ‘embedded cultural enquiry’ is then used to analyse the practices of liberal peacebuilding as a particular culture, which shapes the interaction of the liberal peace with its ‘subjects’ and critics as well as framing its reception of the cultural problematic generally (Chapter 4). The application of the analytical framework to the case study investigates the interaction between the liberal peace and ‘local culture,’ offering an alternative reading of the conflict and peace process in Sierra Leone (Chapter 5). The study concludes that a greater attention to cultural meaning-making offers a largely untapped potential for peacebuilding, although any decisions with regard to its deployment will inevitably be made from within an inherently biased cultural perspective
Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone?
No full textSierra Leone, conflict, government, aid, corruption
Impact of rural poverty reduction strategies: The case of smallholders in Sierra Leone
No full textThe present analysis, which exploits one of the first empirical data collected from smallholders in Sierra Leone since the end of the civil war, compares the impact of two poverty reduction strategies targeting smallholders in Sierra Leone: support to rice production is compared with support to coffee and cocoa production in terms of sustainable income generation and contributing to macroeconomic stability and growth. Supporting rice production is intended to help the country regain self-sufficiency in its traditional principle staple. This will help towards improving food security and reducing dependency on volatile world market prices which, for example, with respect to the recent global spike has had dramatic effects on the lowest incomes. Support to cocoa and coffee production on the other hand aims to create and increase income by producing exportable commodities with higher value added. This research addresses strategic options most successful in improving food security and accelerating economic development. Additionally, bottlenecks in terms of inputs, infrastructure and social and economic factors are identified and analysed in order to isolate those which once improved will impact most on productivity. The results are discussed within a broader economic and socio-economic context in particular with respect to enhanced targeting and impact of Official Development Assistance.Agriculture, Poverty, Official Development Assistance, Sierra Leone, Food Security and Poverty, O1, Q1,
Sustainable development and mining in Sierra Leone
No full textPhDThe conflicts between pursuing mining activities to foster economic
development and protecting the environment in which such activities take place
is a recurring dilemma for mineral reliant countries like Sierra Leone. The
concept of sustainable development was designed on the international platform
to ameliorate such dilemmas. The concept functions as an arbiter to reconcile
biases between developmental goals and environmental objectives, by
advocating an integration of one in the other. This study presents sustainable
development as valuable recipe, by which mining ventures could be pursued as
an economic imperative (to meet the needs of present and future generations),
while protecting the environment and its components in the pursuit of such
developments.
The thesis begins with an introduction into mining in Sierra Leone. It illustrates
the international breeding of sustainable development in environmental
protection (as oppose to economic development), and emphasise the
importance of sustainability principles for sound legal and policy guidance at the
national level. It also establishes the applicability of the concept to mineral
resourced evelopmentsg enerally. Mineral-specificla ws and other legal controls
in Sierra Leone are then examined as a case study; their sustainability content
is ascertained and their capacity as a legal regime to direct or achieve
sustainable mining in that country is explored. Finally, aspects of
implementation of sustainable development in Sierra Leone's mining and its
domestic implications are examined.
This study shows that despite the definitional questions, sustainable
development has direct and primary relevance for environmental protection in
the economic exploitation of natural resources. It identifies a legal character in
the concept beyond legislative processes, and a flexibility in its principles that
allows for their interpretation within legal rules to enhance environmental
protection at the national level. It also illustrates the link between effective
implementation and ensuring sustainable mining
In-Between: Iperterritori/Multicittà/Geo-Urbanità. Frammenti di una conversazione tra Manuel Gausa e Sabrina Leone, per ‹‹Metamorfosi››, n° 54, 2005.
No full textIl contributo propone di approfondire due tematiche attraverso alcune domande che S. Leone propone a M. Gausa: la tematica inerente il concetto di 'geo-urbanità' (così come sviluppano alcuni degli ultimi progetti di scala territoriale di ACTAR Arquitectura) e la tematica inerente il progetto nella città storica/consolidata
The liberal peace and post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa : Sierra Leone
No full textThis thesis critiques liberal peacebuilding in Africa, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone. In particular, it examines the interface between the liberal peace and the “local”, the forms of agency that various local actors are expressing in response to the liberal peace and the hybrid forms of peace that are emerging in Sierra Leone. The thesis is built from an emerging critical literature that has argued for the need to shift from merely criticising liberal peacebuilding to examining local and contextual responses to it. Such contextualisation is crucial mainly because it helps us to develop a better understanding of the complex dynamics on the ground. The aim of this thesis is not to provide a new theory but to attempt to use the emerging insights from the critical scholarship through adopting the concept of hybridity in order to gain an understanding of the forms of peace that are emerging in post-conflict zones in Africa. This has not been comprehensively addressed in the context of post-conflict societies in Africa. Yet, much contemporary peace support operations are taking place in these societies that are characterised by multiple sources of legitimacy, authority and sovereignty.
The thesis shows that in Sierra Leone local actors – from state elites to chiefs to civil society to ordinary people on the “margins of the state” – are not passive recipients of the liberal peace. It sheds new light on how hybridity can be created “from below” as citizens do not engage in outright resistance, but express various forms of agency including partial acceptance and internalisation of some elements of the liberal peace that they find useful to them; and use them to make demands for reforms against state elites who they do not trust and often criticise for their pre-occupation with political survival and consolidation of power. Further, it notes that in Sierra Leone a “post-liberal peace” that is locally-oriented might emerge on the “margins of the state” where culture, custom and tradition are predominant, and where neo-traditional civil society organisations act as vehicles for both the liberal peace and customary peacebuilding while allowing locals to lead the peacebuilding process. In Sierra Leone, there are also peace processes that are based on custom that are operating in parallel to the liberal peace, particularly in remote parts of the country
Geology, geomorphology and mineral resources of the Sula mountains with 5 [sic: actually 4] maps, 18 plates and 20 text figures /
No full textFour maps on folded leaves in pocket.; 1:50,000 sheets 4 and 5 were published in 1962, in Bulletin no. 2.; Maps also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2387751. Maps: -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains: Schist Belt, cross sections shewing geology looking northwards (Scale: 1:50,000) -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains: Scale 1:50,000: Sheet 1: (D.O.S. (Geol) 1081/1 -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains: Scale 1:50,000: Sheet 2: (D.O.S. (Geol) 1081/2 -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains - Kangari Hills Range: Scale 1:50,000: Sheet 3: (D.O.S. (Geol) 1081/3
Leone XII e il penale: variazioni dell'ordinamento nel terzo decennio del XIX secolo
No full textRicostruzione delle vicende di modifica dell'ordinamento penalistico nel breve pontificato di Leone XII
Author Visit inside Leone Cole Auditorium 1
No full textAn unidentified author was a special guest at Jacksonville State University in Spring 1968. Shown she stands on stage in Leone Cole Auditorium with unidentified students signing a book.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/20307/thumbnail.jp
Rice genetic resources in postwar Sierra Leone
No full textThis research presents the effect of the 10-year long civil war in Sierra Leone on rice genetic resources, using farmers and their seed systems in three selected districts as reference points. The war disrupted all forms of production and development in the country and like other sectors of the economy, agricultural production and the conservation of plant genetic resources at the farm level was severely affected. It emerged that farmers’ effectiveness to cultivate and manage their seed systems and the options to grow rice under insecure conditions were disrupted at different levels in the three districts studied. However, the general consequence of the war in all of the districts was that farmers lost considerable amounts of their seed stocks. Total losses for some rice varieties was averted because of the occurrence of a number of varieties in more than one village in the same region, which was a result of farmers seed exchange systems, and also due to farmer movement during the war. The majority of the varieties that were reported lost were actually “dispersed” in the regions, indicating good options for post-war recovery. There was little evidence that the genetic composition of rice varieties were significantly altered as a consequence of the war, except for the total loss of upland varieties in one of the districts. The varieties that had the highest survival were those that had wider pre-war distribution, showed plasticity in growing habits wherein they demonstrated the potential to grow in both agro-ecosystems and in the different districts, and the fact that they existed in many different forms. Statistical analysis showed a clear distinction between upland and lowland varieties, which demonstrated the effectiveness of farmer selection with regard to the two production ecosystems. This was different for the periods defined as pre-war and post-war. Pre-war varieties were less well defined in this respect. Further to this, there was evidence of a change in rice genetic resources between the pre-war and post-war situations, which was demonstrated in the number of varieties for each of the two ecosystems. Despite these changes, and the losses in seed stocks as a consequence of the war, genetic diversity increased in post-war rice varieties. AFLP results indicated that rice varieties in Sierra Leone possess different levels of intra-variety variation, which makes it difficult to identify homogenous genotypes at the seed unit level. This was attributed to genetic exchanges caused by farmers’ practices of growing different varieties in mixtures. The variation however does not alter the profile of inter-variety genetic differences, which remains large enough to distinguish one variety from the other. It demonstrates that the genetic composition of rice varieties remains distinct from one another, and that variety names in Sierra Leone are good indicators for genetic diversity of rice at the farm level. <br/
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