TY  - GEN
T1  - War and the crisis of youth in Sierra Leone
T2  - International African library ;
A1  - Peters, Krijn
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn706505344
AB  - "The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently incomplete understanding of the conflict by focusing on the direct experiences and interpretations of protagonists, paying special attention to the hitherto neglected, and often underage, cadres of the RUF. The data presented challenges the widely canvassed notion of the Sierra Leone conflict as a war motivated by 'greed, not grievance'. Rather, it points to a rural crisis expressed in terms of unresolved tensions between landowners and marginalized rural youth, further reinforced and triggered by a collapsing patrimonial state"--
OP  - 274
CN  - DT516.826 .P37 2011eb
SN  - 9780511861109
SN  - 0511861109
SN  - 9780511976896
SN  - 0511976895
SN  - 9780511858499
SN  - 0511858493
SN  - 9780511859366
SN  - 0511859368
SN  - 9781107004191
SN  - 1107004195
KW  - Revolutionary United Front : History.
KW  - Revolutionary United Front
KW  - Sierra Leone : History : Civil War, 1991-2002 : Participation, Juvenile.
KW  - Sierra Leone : History : Civil War, 1991-2002 : Social aspects.
KW  - Children and war : Sierra Leone.
KW  - Youth : Sierra Leone : Social conditions.
KW  - Sierra Leone : Rural conditions.
KW  - Rural development : Sierra Leone.
KW  - Sierra Leone : Histoire : 1991-2002 (Guerre civile) : Participation des jeunes.
KW  - Sierra Leone : Histoire : 1991-2002 (Guerre civile) : Aspect social.
KW  - Enfants et guerre : Sierra Leone.
KW  - Jeunesse : Sierra Leone : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Développement rural : Sierra Leone.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Children and war
KW  - Military participation : Juvenile
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Rural development
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Youth : Social conditions
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Bürgerkrieg in Sierra Leone : 1991-2002
KW  - Landjugend
KW  - Randgruppe
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - Kind
KW  - Soldat
KW  - 1991-2002
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -