Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Assessment

Publisher: UNEP

Date: 2010

Topics: Assessment, Extractive Resources, Governance, Land, Renewable Resources

Countries: Sierra Leone

“In Sierra Leone, the environmental causes and consequences of war have been prominent for the past 20 years. Inequitable benefits-sharing of natural resource wealth was one of the drivers in the civil war that ravaged the country from 1991 to 2002. Diamonds and other minerals were used to fund combatants, and also became the spoils of war. In the post-conflict era, the environmental impacts of the conflict and continued unsustainable natural resource management have presented challenges to development and peace consolidation that persist today.”