On 14 May 2002, long lines formed early in Freetown for Sierra Leone's first presidential and parliamentary elections after the civil war. One of the largest groups queued at a camp housing amputees, people whose limbs had been cut off by rebel fighters, while police and UN peacekeepers guarded polling stations.
What distinguishes this queue is that people bearing the physical injuries of the war were waiting to choose the government that followed it. The voting procedure moved peace from an agreement between institutions to a choice made person by person.