Police Reform: Abidjan Peace Agreement
Implementations
Police Reform – 1996
The accord called for the professionalization of the police force with reforms and programs aimed at increasing respect for human rights and reducing corruption. No such programs were undertaken in 1996. The Police Council was not established.1
Police Reform – 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
Police Reform – 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.
- “Uppsala Conflict Data Program,” Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research, accessed June 3, 2011, www.ucdp.uu.se/database.