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War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone

2011-03-28 Social Science
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Release : 2011-03-28
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Book Synopsis War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone by : Krijn Peters

Download or read book War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone written by Krijn Peters. This book was released on 2011-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone

2010 Children and war
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Release : 2010
Genre : Children and war
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Book Synopsis War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone by : Krijn Peters

Download or read book War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone written by Krijn Peters. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the incomplete understanding of the conflict in Sierra Leone by focusing on the direct experiences and interpretations of protagonists.

The Social Ecology of Resilience

2011-10-08 Social Science
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Release : 2011-10-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Social Ecology of Resilience by : Michael Ungar

Download or read book The Social Ecology of Resilience written by Michael Ungar. This book was released on 2011-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades after Michael Rutter (1987) published his summary of protective processes associated with resilience, researchers continue to report definitional ambiguity in how to define and operationalize positive development under adversity. The problem has been partially the result of a dominant view of resilience as something individuals have, rather than as a process that families, schools,communities and governments facilitate. Because resilience is related to the presence of social risk factors, there is a need for an ecological interpretation of the construct that acknowledges the importance of people’s interactions with their environments. The Social Ecology of Resilience provides evidence for this ecological understanding of resilience in ways that help to resolve both definition and measurement problems.

Child Soldiers

2010-03-25 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-03-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Child Soldiers by : Myriam S. Denov

Download or read book Child Soldiers written by Myriam S. Denov. This book was released on 2010-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation.

Between Democracy and Terror

2004 History
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Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Between Democracy and Terror by : Ibrahim Abdullah

Download or read book Between Democracy and Terror written by Ibrahim Abdullah. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most authoritative study of the Sierra Leone civil war to emanate from Africa, or indeed any publications' programme on Africa. It explores the genesis of the crisis, the contradictory roles of different internal and external actors, civil society and the media; the regional intervention force and the demise of the second republic. It analyses the numerous peace initiatives designed to end a war, which continued nonetheless to defy and outlast them; and asks why the war became so prolonged. The study articulates how internal actors trod the multiple and conflicting pathways to power. It considers how non-conventional actors were able to inaugurate and sustain an insurgency that called forth the largest concentration of UN peacekeepers the world has ever seen.

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