“This monograph looks at the factors behind
the demand for weapons in Sierra Leone and Liberia, focusing on the buyer side of the market to determine whether proliferation can be stemmed, or at least slowed down, through more creative measures. Increasing funding for education that reduces the number of illiterate and at-risk young
people; creating youth agricultural empowerment initiatives; continuing
demobilisation for ex-combatants beyond cantonment sites; encouraging civic education for adults; and building infrastructure to connect border
communities to legal markets in urban centres are all measures that will impact deeply on the way Sierra Leone and Liberia continue to emerge from the destruction of war and rebuild infrastructure for a better future.”
