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Understanding the Causes of Civil Wars in Post-Colonial Sub-Saharan Africa. Case study: Sierra Leone and the Role of women in the Search for Peace

Sesay, Adama
Master thesis
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2013-11-28
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Abstract
It is widely understood or assumed among scholars like Thomas Weiss, that civil wars in

Africa are mainly wars for natural resources.

This statement needs careful evaluation, and it

is for this reason that this study will use Weiss`s theories on the causes of wars in sub-Sahara

Africa as a background for understanding the Sierra Leone conflict. In addition, as the title

implies, this paper further aims to investigate the war in Sierra Leone and most importantly

the predominant role played by women in the search for peace, in sustaining it and in the post

conflict reconstruction. It is of vital significance because in the minds of many Africans,

women are meant to be seen and not to be heard. It is in the light of this that this thesis will

investigate the sudden emancipation of the Sierra Leonean women from victims of their

culture to agents of peace like their women counterparts in neighbouring Liberia.

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