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1. Library Resource

   

   Beyond the 'Crisis of Youth'?: Mining, farming, and civil society in post-war Sierra Leone

   Journal Articles & Books

   February, 2010

   Africa, Sierra Leone

   Land in post-conflict settings

   extractive industries

   land conflicts

   land governance

   mining

   natural resources management

   youth

   Sierra Leone's conflict has often been characterized as a 'crisis of youth'. For some, the post-war resurgence of grassroots associational life represents the unleashing of long-suppressed youth egalitarianism, yet this analysis tends to ignore the role of international aid in providing an economic incentive for impoverished Sierra Leoneans to embrace formal association. Case study evidence also shows that politics of 'community' identification and moral economies of patronage continue to affect postwar aid.

2. Library Resource

   

   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?