Richard Reeve is Security Manager with International Alert’s Peacebuilding Issues Programme. He has researched, written and taught extensively on security and justice issues and peace support interventions in West Africa. Prior to joining Alert in 2009, he worked with the War Studies Department at King’s College London, Chatham House Africa Programme, Jane’s Information Group and a local conflict-resolution NGO in Georgia. He has also worked with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union.

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Accord Issue 23: West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone

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