Introduction / Cassandra R. Veney -- No justice, no peace : the elusive search for justice and reconciliation in Sierra Leone / Sylvia Macauley -- The role of ex-combatants in Mozambique / Jessica Schafer -- Memory controversies in post-genocide Rwanda : implications for peacebuilding / Elisabeth King -- Land reform, social justice, and reconstruction : challenges for post-genocide Rwanda / Helen Hintjens -- Elections as a stress test of democratization in societies : a comparison of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo / John Yoder -- Partners or adversaries? : NGOs and the state in postwar Sierra Leone / Fredline A.O. M'Cormack-Hale -- Chieftancy and reconstruction in Sierra Leone / Arthur Abraham -- The role of African diasporas in reconstruction / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza -- The role of the African Union in reconstruction in Africa / Thomas Kwasi Tieku -- Governance challenges in Sierra Leone / Osman Gbla -- Challenges of governance reform in Liberia / Amos Sawyer -- Achieving development and democracy / Dick Simpson.