By Conteh, Brigadier General Kellie Hassan. International Alert, 2008.
Author gives a brief history of security system reforms implemented following the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Particular focus is given to intelligence reform and the creation of a National Security Council and several other mechanisms meant to facilitate coordination and depoliticize the roles of security agencies. The author contends that these reforms were crucial to successful and non-violent national elections in 2007 in which the various security sector bodies maintained and ensured safety while remaining politically impartial.
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