Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
1-5-2014 2:00 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 3:00 PM
Project Type
Poster- Restricted to Campus Access
Description
We already know that warlords are fundamentally bad, tearing villages apart, creating chaos, extracting diamonds and minerals for profit at the expense of thousands of innocent lives. But some warlords choose to provide social services---health, education, and primarily, security---which add shades of gray to this prevailing thought process. Who is there to turn to when a state cannot or will not provide those services in conflict? Using case studies from Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the DRC, this paper seeks to determine what drives a warlord to go beyond security in order to ensure the well being of those in their territorial acquisitions, if at all. Focusing on religion (identity), building credibility among communities (grievance), and resource availability (greed) as three possible motivations behind behavior otherwise against the traditional concept of what it means to be a warlord.
Faculty Sponsor
Laura Seay
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Government Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
91
Warlords in Communities: Health, Education, and Security
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
We already know that warlords are fundamentally bad, tearing villages apart, creating chaos, extracting diamonds and minerals for profit at the expense of thousands of innocent lives. But some warlords choose to provide social services---health, education, and primarily, security---which add shades of gray to this prevailing thought process. Who is there to turn to when a state cannot or will not provide those services in conflict? Using case studies from Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the DRC, this paper seeks to determine what drives a warlord to go beyond security in order to ensure the well being of those in their territorial acquisitions, if at all. Focusing on religion (identity), building credibility among communities (grievance), and resource availability (greed) as three possible motivations behind behavior otherwise against the traditional concept of what it means to be a warlord.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/236