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As good as it gets: securing diamonds in Sierra Leone

Cooper, Neil
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2008
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Political Science, Peace building, Post-conflict societies, Sierra Leone, International governance, Diamonds, Financial institutions, Economic conditions, Political economy, REF 2014
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Three interrelated factors make Sierra Leone in general and its extractive sector in particular worthy of examination. First, since the formal declaration of peace in 2002 the country has emerged as a model of liberal peacebuilding.1 The UN deployed one of its largest ever peacekeeping operations at a total cost of $2.8 billion.2 Official development assistance to Sierra Leone (multilateral, bilateral and UN agencies) amounted to US$1.2 billion between 2003 and 2006 (DACO, 2006: 7) and in 2006 the country’s $1.6 billion debt was forgiven (ICG, 2007: 8). In 2007 the country experienced its second successful post-conflict national election resulting in a transition of power to the opposition All People’s Congress.
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Cooper N (2008) As good as it gets: securing diamonds in Sierra Leone. In: Pugh M, Cooper N and Turner M (Eds.) Whose peace? : critical perspectives on the political economy of peacebuilding. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_7
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