(Galtung, 1964, page 2), to small communities, unchaining an endless crossfire with the state, civil-resistance groups and other criminal organisations looking after the control of territory.

Although the framework has considerably supported the understanding of new actors in geopolitics in the Global South, the essence of greed versus grievance is not routed to address a conflict but to facilitate the recognition of interests in new wars. Below, two study cases will be shortly reviewed and how the greed and grievance can be detected either in one of any perspectives of the framework, but should not be considered as the main driver in the creation of action plans from policy makers. The argument of this essay states that geopolitics will prove that conflicts can´t be seen as a double-headed dragon, or simply basing them through an isolated theory.

There are two main phrases from the well-known 17th century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza that can refer to this context:
“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice.” (Spinoza, n.d.)
This reflex leads to his second phrase, suggesting that aid should come from a collaborative effort, and not from personal addressing:
“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.” (Spinoza, n.d.)

2.1 Sierra Leone

The known case of the ‘Conflict Diamonds’ in Sierra Leone demonstrates how a ‘greed’ perspective can be projected. This long war had many actors involved in it, including the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force (RSLMF), various splinter groups and civil defence forces and private companies. (Richards, 2003, page 9). Sierra Leone experienced true violence in the 1990s, when grievances clashed local authorities, and rebel groups took control of these grievances and use them for the illegal exploitation of diamonds in order to reach personal interests. “Both the composition of the initial force that crossed into Sierra Leone and Taylor’s motivations for supporting the RUF highlight the regional dynamics that underpinned Sierra Leone’s conflict” (Pugh, Cooper, Goodhand, 2004). The civil war started on March 23, 1991, when a group of 100 fighters from Sierra Leone and Liberia invaded east Sierra Leone. Foday Sankoh, an ex-army sergeant, leaded the RUF- with the argument that he represented the urban dispossessed and promised impoverished peasants a greater share in the mineral wealth misused by the government. The grievance was being used as a driver to alter the sense of the fight, and allow the greedy to take control of the situation and turning it into a 9-year war, concentrating it in the diamond districts. In 1999, Sankoh and Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, president of Sierra Leone at the time, signed the Lome Peace Accord (UNSC, 1999) under pressure of the United Nations and the US Government. As a concession to RUF, Sankoh was released from death sentence for his war crimes and was appointed as chairman of the Strateg