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This book is partly a history of the United Kingdom (UK) intervention in Sierra Leone and partly a reconstruction and critique of efforts made to reconstruct a state. Between 1997 and 2007, the UK Government, along with other international partners including the United Nations (UN), fought a losing struggle to prop up a collapsing state, watched as it completely fell apart, and then intervened to prevent further bloodshed. They then committed themselves to a long-term intervention with the aim of reconstructing the Sierra Leonean state from scratch.
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Jackson, P., Albrecht, P. (2011). Introduction. In: Reconstructing Security after Conflict. New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230302471_1
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