Douglas thinks practicality will drive the use of private security companies. UN peacekeeping is not the only arena of force to keep or create peace. Sierra Leone is not the only country where government has brought in mercenaries for a specific purpose. Angola is another. Also, both countries are blessed with an abundance of diamonds.
Diamonds do seem to attract private security companies.
The mission report asserted that years of successive undemocratic and corrupt government, an absence of social investment and extreme and widespread poverty characterized the country. It argues that the crisis in Sierra Leone is not the 'rebel war', as many proclaim, but rather years of bad governance and economic mismanagement. It was that 'rebel war' which brought 'private security' to Sierra Leone. It was that war which Douglas says was stopped by Executive Outcomes. Branch Energy has been given a kimberlite mining concession in the Koidu district.