Abstract

London’s new prominence in Africa played a very important role in the case of Sierra Leone, where in 2000 it intervened with a military action, the first by the British army on the African continent since decolonization. The paper focuses on the role played by the various Sierra Leonean religious confessions (Catholics, Protestants, Muslims) during the civil war and then, above all, in the long post-war negotiation phase, when the synergy between these forces proved to be a decisive element in the peacemaking action, going alongside formal diplomacy and, in many cases, filling its shortcomings