After the Shooting Stops

Five years after the close of a horrifying civil war, Sierra Leone held the freest elections in its history. Voters turned out the party that had overseen the war's end,…

Often recommended as a means of ending intractable civil wars, power-sharing may in fact be least likely to work when it is most needed.

As countries emerge from war and embark on recovery, the risk of corruption is high and the consequences are dire. International aid must be accompanied by an anticorruption strategy that…