TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leib, Julia
A1  - Ruppel, Samantha
T1  - The dance of peace and justice
BT  - local perceptions of international peacebuilding in West Africa
JF  - International peacekeeping
N2  - This article investigates local perceptions of international peacebuilding in Sierra Leone and Liberia and explains the need for an inclusive framework addressing peace and justice at the same time. These neighbouring countries in West Africa not only share the burden of an intertwined conflict history but have also been described as prototypes for successful peacebuilding. However, both cases show striking differences with regard to the relative importance given to security and justice during the peace process and within the selected peacebuilding approaches. In Liberia, the peacebuilding framework was clearly sequenced, favouring security over justice. In Sierra Leone, it included a comprehensive TJ component, which was implemented alongside security-centred initiatives. In order to compare these two cases and to elaborate on the challenges of establishing both peace and justice in post-conflict settings with a more people-centred focus, we conducted expert interviews with (inter)national peacebuilding actors and opinion surveys, asking how the civilian populations themselves perceive the peace process and the effectiveness of international peacebuilding. The findings provide insights into local experiences with the inclusive peacebuilding framework implemented in Sierra Leone and the drawbacks of delaying justice and accountability in Liberia.
KW  - Peacebuilding
KW  - transitional justice
KW  - Liberia
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - civil war
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2021.1927726
SN  - 1353-3312
SN  - 1743-906X
IS  - 5
SP  - 783
EP  - 812
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Iro, Andrea
T1  - The UN Peacebuilding Commission : lessons from Sierra Leone
N2  - “The UN Peacebuilding Commission – Lessons from Sierra Leone” by political scientist Andrea Iro is an assessment of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) by analysing their performance over the last two years in Sierra Leone, one of the first PBC focus countries. The paper explores the key question of how the PBC/PBF’s mandate has been translated into operational practice in the field. It concludes that though the overall impact has been mainly positive and welcomed by the country, translating the general mandate into concrete activities remains a real challenge at the country level.
T3  - WeltTrends Thesis - 6 
KW  - Vereinte Nationen
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Friedensforschung
KW  - United Nations
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Peace Studies
Y1  - 2009
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-29599
SN  - 978-3-940793-77-5
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -