Truth or Reconciliation Mechanism: Abidjan Peace Agreement
Implementations
Truth or Reconciliation Mechanism – 1996
The peace agreement called for the establishment of two main commissions: (a) the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, and (2) the Joint Commission for the Consolidation of Peace. The Joint Commission for the Consolidation of Peace was set up immediately after the peace agreement in December of 1996 but the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission was not established.1
Truth or Reconciliation Mechanism – 1997
In 1997, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and soldiers under his command formed an alliance with RUF rebels and toppled Sierra Leone’s government. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah fled into Guinea.1
Truth or Reconciliation Mechanism – 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.