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How 9/11 Derailed African Peace - Funmi Olonisakin


Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of UNAMSIL, by ’Funmi Olonisakin (Lynne Rienner, 2008). The first in a series of “inside” histories, Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone relates how a small country—one insignificant in the strategic considerations of the world powers—propelled the United Nations to center stage in a crisis that called its very authority into question; and how the UN mission in Sierra Leone was transformed from its nadir into what is now widely considered one of the most successful peacekeeping missions in UN history. For more information or to purchase, click here.

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