Krijn Peters

War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511855887
• Artikelnr.: 38186055

Autorenporträt

Krijn Peters, a rural development sociologist by background, is a lecturer in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, Wales. He specializes in armed conflict and post-war reconstruction, focusing primarily on the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers and youthful combatants. Dr Peters is the co-author of War and Children (2009) and a Visiting Fellow at VU University, Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Voices from the battlefield: ex-combatants' views on root causes of the war and their reasons for participation
2. The socio-economic crisis of rural youth
3. Conflict in Sierra Leone and recruits to the war
4. The world of the RUF
5. Malfunctions and atrocities
6. Cultivating peace: RUF ex-combatants' involvement in post-war agricultural projects
7. Footpaths to reintegration?: Agrarian solutions for the reintegration of ex-combatants
8. Conclusion: the RUF as a rural underclass project
Epilogue
Annex I: a chronology
Annex II: overview interviewed ex-RUF combatants.