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Life after guns : reciprocity and respect among young men in Liberia /

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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. Abby Hardgrove focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that...

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Main Author: Hardgrove, Abby V. (Abby Virginia), 1983- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Series:Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Subjects:
Young men > Liberia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Child soldiers > Liberia.
Veteran reintegration > Liberia.
Liberia > Politics and government > 1980-
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Child soldiers.
Politics and government.
Veteran reintegration.
Young men > Social conditions.
Liberia.
Since 1980
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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. Abby Hardgrove focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813573496
0813573491
9780813573502
0813573505
9780813573489
0813573483