Beyond liberal institution (re)building: conversations on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Sierra Leone

Eka Ikpe; Abiodun Alao; Kamau Nyokabi Nyokabi

doi:10.1080/14678802.2021.1974685

Beyond liberal institution (re)building: conversations on peacebuilding and statebuilding in Sierra Leone

Eka Ikpe, Abiodun Alao, Kamau Nyokabi Nyokabi

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This paper contributes to debates on the relationship between peacebuilding and statebuilding with its analysis of post-independence Sierra Leone. It considers the extent to which peacebuilding has returned Sierra Leonean society to post-independence statebuilding conversations and how the issues that have emanated from such conversations have interacted with settlement and post-settlement arrangements. This paper analyses original data from focus group discussions and interviews in fieldwork from January 2016. It finds that the situation in Sierra Leone heralded opportunities for peacebuilding processes to engage concerns that have been linked with historical statebuilding conversations. Yet formal statebuilding processes, which were particularly focused on liberal institution building in the post-conflict context, were not sufficiently attentive to their antecedents. Nonetheless there are suggestions of some engagement with extant statebuilding conversations particularly in relation to how ethnicity continues to colour the statebuilding project, the significance of intergroup dynamics across intergenerational exchanges and gender and the challenges of socio-economic exclusion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	431-453
Number of pages	23
Journal	Conflict, Security & Development
Volume	21
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2021.1974685
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 27 Sept 2021

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conversations
liberal institutionbuilding
Peacebuilding
Sierra Leone
statebuilding

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