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Non-Linearity and Transitions in Sierra Leone’s Security and Justice Programming
International Peacekeeping ( IF 2.203 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 , DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2020.1812393
Peter Albrecht 1 , Paul Jackson 1
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ABSTRACT

This article explores how transitions produce non-linearity in Sierra Leone’s security and justice programming, as it unfolded from the late 1990s and onwards starting in open conflict. Transitions have received limited detailed analytical consideration in the literature on interventions because they are mundane and inevitable, and therefore taken for granted. However, they definitively condition how programmes evolve. We show that transitions can be seemingly small as well as comprehensive, but commonly have unpredictable, hidden and often unmanageable transformative effects on the trajectory of security and justice programmes. To conceptualize the logic of transitioning, ritual theory – and specifically liminality that is a central component of rites of passage – is used to capture the inherent diffuseness and unpredictability of transitioning. Transitions in programming are liminal moments, ‘neither here nor there’, and as such characterized by ambiguity and indeterminacy. The ambiguity, and importance, of transitions stems from their potency to disturb the direction of programming, requiring the suspension of routine, which internationally funded programming is notoriously ill-suited to deal with. Empirically, the article looks at three types of transitions in Sierra Leone: (1) war to peace; (2) turnover of staff; and (3) elections leading to change of the party in power.



中文翻译:

塞拉利昂安全和司法规划中的非线性和过渡

摘要

本文探讨了过渡如何在塞拉利昂的安全和司法规划中产生非线性,因为它从 1990 年代后期开始并从公开冲突开始。过渡在干预文献中得到的详细分析考虑有限,因为它们是平凡且不可避免的,因此被视为理所当然。然而,它们明确地限制了程序如何发展。我们表明,过渡可能看似小而全面,但通常会对安全和司法计划的轨迹产生不可预测、隐藏且通常无法管理的变革影响。为了概念化过渡的逻辑,仪式理论——特别是作为通过仪式的核心组成部分的阈值——被用来捕捉过渡的内在扩散和不可预测性。编程中的过渡是临界时刻,“不在这里也不在那里”,因此具有模糊性和不确定性的特点。过渡的模糊性和重要性源于它们扰乱计划方向的效力,需要暂停例行程序,众所周知,国际资助的计划不适合处理。从经验上看,本文着眼于塞拉利昂的三种转型:(1)战争到和平;(二)人员流动;(3) 导致执政党更迭的选举。众所周知,国际资助的节目不适合处理。从经验上看,本文着眼于塞拉利昂的三种转型:(1)战争到和平;(二)人员流动;(3) 导致执政党更迭的选举。众所周知,国际资助的节目不适合处理。从经验上看,本文着眼于塞拉利昂的三种转型:(1)战争到和平;(二)人员流动;(3) 导致执政党更迭的选举。

更新日期:2020-08-27
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