This article will explore the role of music in the Sierra Leonean conflict and the extent to
which music facilitated the construction of identities and the formation of social cohesion …

Jokes overheard during the festival of Bhume Puja, 1 on top of Jaljala in Rolpa, revealed the
importance of the Maoist world for youth in that part of Nepal. 2 As any festival of this kind …

For the past 20 years the Mano River Basin (MRB) has been an area of violent upheavals
and political instability. Although the area today enjoys peace in formal terms, life for many …

Against the backdrop of a threadbare post-war state and a global marine ecology in
treacherous decline, Jennifer Diggins offers a dynamic account of post-war Sierra Leone …

Debates about the status of child soldiers under international law have tended to
concentrate on legal culpability. After reading fiction and memoir that relate the stories of …

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 …

The number of studies on children in war has steadily increased in the fields of international
relations, international law and moral philosophy in recent years. Most of this research has …

As a result of the autopsy of Sierra Leone's civil war, we have become familiar with a rather
dystopian vision of 'traditional'economic life in that region. Combatants often described their …

Previous research on ex-combatant re-recruitment into armed violence has focused on the
role of structures and facilitating conditions but has overlooked the question of individual …

Using metaphors of control as apparatus of state power, this chapter examines how
government officials, citizens, UNICEF, and youth negotiated power in logistical efforts to …