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Child soldiers : = Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Child soldiers :/ Myriam Denov.
Reminder of title:	Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front /
Author:	Denov, Myriam S.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Child soldiers - Interviews. - Sierra Leone -
Subject:	Sierra Leone - Biography. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676475
ISBN:	9780511676475 (ebook)

Child soldiers : = Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front /
Denov, Myriam S.,

Child soldiers :Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front /Myriam Denov. - 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: Child soldiers, iconography, and the (il)logic of extremes -- Children's involvement in war : the quandary of structure and agency -- Recipe for rebellion : civil war in Sierra Leone -- Negotiating power : research on and by child soldiers -- "Becoming RUF" : the making of a child soldier -- "Being RUF" : victimization, participation, and resistance -- "Put dey gon don" : the unmaking of a child soldier -- New battlefields.

Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse.

ISBN: 9780511676475 (ebook)Subjects--Corporate Names:

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Revolutionary United Front
--Biography.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Child soldiers
--Sierra Leone--Interviews.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Sierra Leone
--Biography.

LC Class. No.: DT516.827 / .D46 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 966.404

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