ABSTRACT

This paper contributes to debates on the relationship between peacebuilding and statebuilding with its analysis of post-independence Sierra Leone. It considers the extent to which peacebuilding has returned Sierra Leonean society to post-independence statebuilding conversations and how the issues that have emanated from such conversations have interacted with settlement and post-settlement arrangements. This paper analyses original data from focus group discussions and interviews in fieldwork from January 2016. It finds that the situation in Sierra Leone heralded opportunities for peacebuilding processes to engage concerns that have been linked with historical statebuilding conversations. Yet formal statebuilding processes, which were particularly focused on liberal institution building in the post-conflict context, were not sufficiently attentive to their antecedents. Nonetheless there are suggestions of some engagement with extant statebuilding conversations particularly in relation to how ethnicity continues to colour the statebuilding project, the significance of intergroup dynamics across intergenerational exchanges and gender and the challenges of socio-economic exclusion.

摘要

本文通过对独立后塞拉利昂的分析，促进了关于建设和平与国家建设之间关系的辩论。它考虑了建设和平在多大程度上使塞拉利昂社会回归到独立后的国家建设对话，以及此类对话产生的问题如何与定居点和定居点后的安排相互作用。本文分析了 2016 年 1 月实地工作中焦点小组讨论和访谈的原始数据。它发现，塞拉利昂的局势预示着建设和平进程有机会参与与历史建国对话相关的问题。然而，正式的国家建设进程，特别侧重于冲突后背景下的自由制度建设，没有足够关注他们的前因。尽管如此，仍有人建议参与现存的国家建设对话，特别是关于种族如何继续影响国家建设项目、跨代际交流和性别的群体间动态的重要性以及社会经济排斥的挑战。