Subject(s): Disarmament -- War of Liberation -- Arms control in Sierra Leone -- Illegal arms transfers in Sierra Leone -- Firearms in Sierra Leone -- Insurgency in Sierra Leone -- Sierra Leone in History in Civil War, 1991- -- Peace building and practical disarmament: beyond states, with civil society -- UNIDIR research on micro disarmament and peace- building in west Africa -- UNIDIR and civil society organizations working in partnership with the governmental sector -- Background to the conflict (1961-1991) -- Politics of systematic exclusion -- lapses in state security -- Abidjan peace accord and the AFRC coup d'etat -- Revival of the peace Agreement -- Lome Peace Agreement -- Bound to cooperate: peacemaking and power sharing in Sierra Leone -- Civil conflict -- Arms smuggling: issue for the costume service in post- war sierra Leone -- Role of customs service in a democratic state -- Undermining of customs during the war, Importance of customs in arms control and arms regulation policy in post-war sierra Leone -- Customs service in post-war Sierra Leone -- Arms regulation, Challenging issue for the police force in post-war and order enforcement -- Institutional undermining of the police , Sierre Leone police force in distress, local needs policing , Disarmament, the police and civil society -- Arms control policy under threat: dealing with the plague of corruption -- Institutionalizing corruption -- Great illusion of the NPRC interregnum -- War and small arms proliferation -- People against corruption: civil society action -- DDR programmes -- Politics of bad governance -- Rebel war and rebel peace -- Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration in post-war Sierra Leone -- Community based disarmament and post-conflict peace-building -- Women against weapons -- Women and politics in Sierra Leone -- Justice and reconciliation in post-war sierra Leone -- Crime and punishment -- Truth and reconciliation commission -- Application of justice -- Objective and functions of the commission