POLS 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foday Sankoh
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture 3: the greed and grievance debate ii. Diverse nations are more peaceful: encourage market economies. According to jeffery herbst there are other causes of conflict other than greed: so are foday sankoh in sierra leone and charles taylor in liberia really the same as. Nelson mandela and the anc in south africa. Was the conflict over apartheid really just about greed: cutting off markets for resources reflects the international community"s preference for clean solutions. Ending civil war may involve the messier task of fighting. Rebel groups are amazingly adaptable and will find another source to fund their war if one way is blocked. The resort to things like diamonds are a reflection of the weakness of states and their institutions. The effectiveness of the state is thus the issue. So beef up the state to solve problems of conflict.
