Abstract

The aim of this article is to look at the transmutation of former rebel groups into political parties in Liberia Sierra Leone and C te d Ivoire after long bloody civil wars that claimed thousands of lives in West Africa One of the foci of post-conflicts transformation is peacebuilding that has many features such as the organization of free and fair elections in order to encourage the former belligerents to embrace multiparty elections as a way to settle grievances through democratic means for peace to return to these countries and by replacing insecurity with security and violence with peace as well as economic reconstruction political stability and social justice