Articles · Vol. 22 No 3-4 (1997): Afrique et développement: Special Issue Lumpen  Culture and Political Violence: The Sierra Leone Civil War

7 - The May 25 Coup d'Etat in Sierra Leone: A Militariat Revolt?

par Lansana Gberie

  • Lansana Gberie
    Lansana Gberie Laurier Centre for Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
    Lansana Gberie is a Consultant for OSIWA on UNGASS 2016. An academic and writer, Dr. Gberie has written extensively on conflict, conflict management, human rights and peacebuilding in Africa, including, most recently (as editor) Rescuing a Fragile State: Sierra Leone...
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Vol. 22 · 1997 N°3-4 Afrique et développement: Special Issue Lumpen  Culture and Political Violence: The Sierra Leone Civil War AD

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25 mai coup d'état armée Front révolutionnaire uni (RUF) Ahmed Tejan Kabbah Johnny Paul Kabbah Sierr

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  • Lansana Gberie, Laurier Centre for Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

    Lansana Gberie is a Consultant for OSIWA on UNGASS 2016. An academic and writer, Dr. Gberie has written extensively on conflict, conflict management, human rights and peacebuilding in Africa, including, most recently (as editor) Rescuing a Fragile State: Sierra Leone 2002-2008 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009). He is also author of A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone (London: Hurst 2005). Dr. Gberie was awarded the ‘Outstanding Research Award’ by the Canadian government in 2002 for his work with Partnership Africa Canada on the Human Security and International Diamond Trade project; he and his colleagues were also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by three senior US lawmakers for this work the following year

Références

  1. Agence France Presse, Pan African News Agency and Reuters News Staries, posted regularly on the Leonenet Discussion Group e-mail forum, have been very useful. Also useful has been the Sierra Leone Web Page on the internet (url: http://www.Sierra Leone.org.htm , which systematically stores news items and important documents on the Sierra Leone crisis.
  2. Anned Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), 1997a, 'Position Paper on Negotiation', July. Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), 1997b, List of members of the 'Supreme Council', Freetown.