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   Unearthing the voices of the mine

   Videos

   January, 2018

   Sierra Leone

   Land in post-conflict settings

   extractive industries

   land access

   land dispute

   land use

   mining

   Our new feature film from Roy Maconachie and Simon Wharf explores the pathway of a diamond from mine to market, and asks the question, who really benefits?

2. Library Resource

   

   From Bullets to Banners and Back Again? The Ambivalent Role of Ex-combatants in Contested Land Deals in Sierra Leone

   Journal Articles & Books

   January, 2019

   Sierra Leone

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land acquisitions

   land administration

   land conflicts

   land deals

   land governance

   The rise of land deals poses unpredictable risks to war-torn societies, exposing them to the violent folds of the global economy. In Sierra Leone, commercial land leases have perpetuated the chieftaincy monopoly, further curtailed social mobility, and sparked particular resentment among youths and ex-combatants. Drawing on the concept of the “war machine,” I analyse how Kamajor militia fighters shape contestation against land deals and explore the attendant risks for remobilisation and conflict transformation.

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   Armed conflict and mining induced land-use transition in northern Nimba County, Liberia

   Reports & Research

   January, 2019

   Liberia

   Land Conflicts

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land governance

   environment

   deforestation

   land use

   land use change

   mining

   natural resources management

   land conflicts

   local communities

   This study determined pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict land use change and analysed the impact of armed conflict on the intensity of land use change in northern Nimba County. Landsat images of 1986, 1990, 2002 and 2016 were classif