Faith in resolving Sierra Leone's bloody conflict

Round Table

Volumn 94, Issue 382, 2005, Pages 549-557

  Penfold, Peter ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christian Muslim relations; Civil society; Conflict resolution; Kabbah; Revolutionary United Front (RUF); Sankoh; Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone Special Court; Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIANITY; ISLAMISM; POLITICAL CONFLICT; RELIGION; WAR;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 27644505159     PISSN: 00358533     EISSN: 1474029X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00358530500303601     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. For example, inter-faith marriages are not uncommon, as epitomised by President Kabbah, himself a Muslim, and his late wife Patricia, a Roman Catholic.
2. The notorious RUF commander Sam Bockarie (known as 'Mosquito') infamously declared that every living thing would be killed "down to the last chicken".
3. CCSL website.
4. Human Rights Watch, Getting Away with Murder, Mutilation and Rape, New York: Human Rights Watch Report, June 1999.
5. Extracts taken from the ACCORD publication, Civil Society and Peacebuilding: The Role of the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone, London: Conciliation Resources.
6. Ibid.
7. Extract from Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report, October 2004 (as yet unpublished).