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   Investing in peace: foreign direct investment as economic restoration in Sierra Leone?

   Journal Articles & Books

   January, 2015

   Africa, Sierra Leone

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land markets

   land investments

   foreign investment

   land deals

   land conflicts

   In peace-building and transitional justice literature economic restoration is considered central to sustainable peace in post-conflict societies. However, it is also widely recognised that many post-conflict states cannot afford mechanisms to provide restoration. Not only are many such states poor to begin with, but violent conflict further degrades their economic capacity. As a result, in their need to provide jobs, generate tax revenues, spur development and promote sustainable peace, many post-conflict states turn to alternative processes of economic restoration.

2. Library Resource

   

   Enclosure, dispossession, and the green economy: new contours of internal displacement in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

   Journal Articles & Books

   June, 2017

   Liberia, Sierra Leone

   Land in post-conflict settings

   displacement

   dispossession

   land conflicts

   land governance

   local communities

   natural disasters

   natural resources management

   Through a review of recent writings in political ecology and agrarian studies, this paper appraises the potential for emerging forms of ‘green economy’ initiatives to catalyze new forms of internal displacement in West Africa, with specific emphasis on the postwar contexts of Liberia and Sierra Leone.