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War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone

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The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. But so far conclusions about the nature of the war and the RUF are drawn from acc...

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ISBN: 9780511976896
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
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