Life After Guns

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 combatants...

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Main Author: Hardgrove, Abby
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Language:English
Published: Rutgers University Press 2021
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