War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainl...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
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London
International African Institute
28.03.2011
Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press |
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| Edice: | The International African Library |
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| ISBN: | 9781107004191, 1107004195 |
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- The RUF's Ideology: 'Drastic Fundamental Change'? -- Military and Ideology Training in the RUF -- Mechanisms in the RUF to Monitor the Behaviour of its Fighters and Civilians -- The 'People's Court': Punishment in the RUF -- 5 Malfunctions and Atrocities -- Introduction -- The Erosion of RUF Ideology -- External Factors -- The Liberian Special Forces (1991-2) -- The Rise of Hunter-Based Civil Defence (1994-5) -- The AFRC (1997-9) -- Internal Factors -- Failing Reporting Mechanisms -- Bodyguards -- Native and Non-Native Rebels -- Unpunished Ruthlessness -- Meritocracy and Age -- Liberated Areas and Frontlines -- Terror as Performance: How the RUF Prepared for Battle -- Conclusion -- 6 Cultivating Peace: RUF Ex-Combatants' Involvement in Post-War Agricultural Projects -- Introduction -- The Projects -- GTZ Tongo -- NADA Blama -- BANSAL Robol Junction -- RADO Makeni -- KADO Makeni -- Discussion -- 7 Footpaths to Reintegration? Agrarian Solutions for the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants -- A Crisis Denied -- Making Agricultural Packages Central -- The Need for Agricultural Training Projects -- Individual and Collective Farming Opportunities -- Access to Land and Labour -- Towards a New Approach to Agricultural Training -- 8 Conclusion: The RUF as a Rural Underclass Project -- Introduction -- Was the RUF a Product of 'Lumpen' Culture, and Was It 'Mindlessly Violent'? -- Radical Youth Culture in Sierra Leone -- The Libya and Liberia Connections -- Bush Paths to Destruction? -- A Lumpen Movement -- Lack of Ideology -- The Widespread Violence -- Some Criticism of the Lumpen Hypothesis -- Lumpens as a Moral Verdict -- Second-Generation City Lumpens or Rural Drop-Outs? -- The Creation and Collapse of an Armed Egalitarian Meritocracy -- A Neo-Durkheimian Process -- Discussion: Answering the Three Key Questions
- Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Tongo in a Time of War -- Three Explanations of the Conflict -- 'New Barbarism', or 'the Apocalyptic View' -- Greed, Not Grievance -- State Collapse and a Pent-Up Rebellion of Youth -- Defining the Problem and the Solution -- Chapter Overview -- 1 Voices from the Battlefield: Ex-Combatants' Views on Root Causes of the War and Their Reasons for Participation -- Introduction -- RUF Ex-Combatants -- SLA/AFRC Ex-Combatants -- CDF/Kamajoisia Ex-Combatants -- Discussion -- 2 The Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth -- Introduction -- The Making and Collapse of the State in Sierra Leone -- Slaves and Ex-Slaves -- From Crown Colony to Protectorate -- Political Parties Emerge -- Patrimonial Politics Takes Shape -- APC Oppression -- An Economic Tragedy -- The Patrimonial System Collapses -- The Making and Functioning of Rural Societies in Sierra Leone -- Settler Patterns -- Primitive Accumulation and Domestic Slavery -- Elite Control over Means of Production and Reproduction -- Neither Citizens Nor Subjects: The Political Marginalisation of Youth -- Survival Strategies for Marginalised Youth -- Discussion -- 3 Conflict in Sierra Leone and Recruits to the War -- The Beginning -- Youth in Power -- The Kamajoisia -- And Another Coup -- Towards Final Peace -- 4 The World of the RUF -- Introduction -- Strategies of Bonding -- Conscription -- Loyalty through Punishment and Rewards -- Loyalty through Isolation -- Loyalty to the Leader -- Loyalty through Socialisation -- Meritocratic Principles -- The Interior World of the RUF -- The Bush Camps -- The 'Green Revolution' -- Farming in the 'Liberated Zones' -- Mining Under the RUF -- Free Education and Health Care -- Rules and Regulations in the RUF
- Lumpen Neo-Barbarians - Did Uncouth Cultures Cause War? -- Greed, Not Grievance - Was It All about Diamonds? -- Rapid Expansion of the RUF - An Inverse of the Rapidly Collapsing Patrimonial State? -- Epilogue -- Annex I: A Chronology -- 1991 -- 1992 -- 1993 -- 1994 -- 1995 -- 1996 -- 1997 -- 1998 -- 1999 -- 2000 -- 2001 -- 2002 -- 2003 -- Annex II: Overview: Interviewed Ex-RUF Combatants -- References -- Index