Caulker, Solomon Bunting (2025). Post-conflict security sector governance in Sierra Leone: deficits as inhibitors of sustainable development. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.
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Abstract
This research examines how security and development have mutually interacted in Sierra Leone’s post-conflict political history. Through the analytical lens of the security-development ‘nexus’, it is an exploration into how the security sector has/has not supported national socio-economic development while it has been consistently situated in post-conflict development and poverty reduction policy. While there is ample scholarly agreement on the normative interlinkages between the two concepts as well as being a widely-utilised policy approach, it is also argued that the two concepts are not seen to be working concertedly in practice; that there is inadequacy of evidence to provide it theoretical entrenchment. The study seeks to explore the nexus as the two concepts interact at policy, practice and scholarly research domains. Using Sierra Leone as a case study with particular utilisation of ‘process tracing’ to manifest co-variation and causal inferences, it juxtaposes the security and development realms in Sierra Leone through the exploration of its post-conflict history, with particular examination of the evolution of the security sector, its role in supporting or obstructing development, bringing out the relationship between security and development policy and how the ‘securitisation’ of development in the post-conflict era has manifested itself.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.) | |||||||||
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| Award Type: | Doctorates > Ph.D. | |||||||||
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| Licence: | All rights reserved | |||||||||
| College/Faculty: | Colleges > College of Social Sciences | |||||||||
| School or Department: | Department of Political Science and International Studies | |||||||||
| Funders: | Other | |||||||||
| Other Funders: | Commonwealth Scholarship Secretariat, University of Birmingham | |||||||||
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) | |||||||||
| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/15972 |
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