Episodes
(5)Overview
Status
Terminated
Duration
8 October 1997 - 29 September 2010
(almost 13 years)
Objectives
Cease hostilities, Peace enforcement, Peacebuilding, Democracy support, Support judicial process
Sanction Types
- Travel (individual travel ban)
- Diplomatic (limit diplomatic travel)
- Arms (arms imports embargo)
- Commodity (petroleum imports ban, rough diamonds exports ban)
Non-UN Sanctions
Regional (ECOWAS), Unilateral (no)
Other Policy Instruments
Diplomacy, Legal tribunals, Peace operations, Use of military force, DDR/SSR
Background
Following years of civil war between Revolutionary United Front (the RUF) and the government of Sierra Leone (dating from October 1991), the recently elected (January 1996) government of President Ahmad Kabbah negotiated a peace agreement with the RUF (the Abidjan Peace Accord) in November 1996. Kabbah was overthrown in a military coup (by the AFRC) a few months later in May 1997.
Episodes
The analysis of the Sierra Leone case is divided into the following episodes (also navigable via the numbers in the top bar):
