Dispute Resolution Committee: Abidjan Peace Agreement

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Dispute Resolution Committee: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Implementations

Dispute Resolution Committee – 1996

The accord called for the establishment of a Commission for the Consolidation of Peace to verify implementation and make policy recommendations which were to be binding. The Commission for the Consolidation of Peace was reported as having been established in December of 1996. The commission was expected to begin its work in establishing six “committees which amongst other things will oversee the encampment and disarmament of soldiers.” A four-men RUF team and three former ministers and a senior advisor to Kabbah made up the commission. The RUF delegation to the commission came to Freetown for talks at least once on 19 December 1996.1

Beyond that initial meeting, the committee never became operational and did not meet again. Sources describe the event as a ploy by RUF to buy some time while they consolidated their military forces for a final push.2

  1. “Sierra Leone rebels come to capital for talks,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, December 19, 1996.
  2. Kendra Dupuy and Helga Malmin Binningsbø, “Power-sharing and Peace-building in Sierra Leone: Power-sharing Agreements, Negotiations and Peace Processes,” CSCW Policy Brief 7 (Oslo: PRIO/CSCW, 2007).

Dispute Resolution Committee – 1997

In 1997, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and his soldiers formed an alliance with RUF troops and toppled Sierra Leone’s government. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah fled into Guinea.1

  1. “Sierra Leone coup leader claims power,” The Independent (London), May 26, 1997,13.

Dispute Resolution Committee – 1998

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.1

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.

  1. “Uppsala Conflict Data Program,” Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research, accessed June 3, 2011, www.ucdp.uu.se/database.