Life After Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia

Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former c...

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Main Author: Hardgrove, Abby (auth)
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Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 20170505
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