Hybridization, Intervention and Authority: Security Beyond Conflict in Sierra Leone

ISBN-13: 9781138104778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 210 str.

Peter Albrecht

Opis

This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field through security sector reform.

Spis treści

1: Introduction  2: The Rise and Fall of Security Sector Reform in Development  3: Collapse, Chaos, and Resurrection  4: Hybridization and the Authority of Chiefs  5: The Interplay of Police Reform and Hybridization  6: The Chiefs of Community Policing  7: Secrets, Strangers, and Order-Making  8: Hybridization in a Case of Diamond Theft  9: Conclusion

O autorze

Peter Albrecht is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). His main focus is on the role of local actors in order-making, specifically in Sierra Leone and Somalia, and national-level security sector reform. He has co-authored a number of books, including Reconstructing Security after Conflict: Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone (2011) and Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013: Defence, Diplomacy and Development in Action (2014) and co-edited Policing and the Politics of Order-Making (Routledge, 2015). He has published several articles in the Journal of Modern African Studies, the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, the African Studies Review, Ethnos, Cooperation and Conflict, and others.