LEADER 03958nam 22007572 450 001 9910459243703321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a0-511-86223-7 010 $a1-107-22094-7 010 $a1-283-01201-4 010 $a9786613012012 010 $a0-511-86023-4 010 $a0-511-86110-9 010 $a0-511-85849-3 010 $a0-511-85762-4 010 $a0-511-97689-5 010 $a0-511-85936-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000059721 035 $a(EBL)615801 035 $a(OCoLC)704257987 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10454920 035 $a(PQKB)10787692 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511976896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC615801 035 $a(PPN)184488109 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL615801 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10449310 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL301201 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000059721 100 $a20101012d2011|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWar and the crisis of youth in Sierra Leone /$fKrijn Peters$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aThe International African library ;$v41 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-00419-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Voices from the battlefield: ex-combatants' views on root causes of the war and their reasons for participation -- 2. The socio-economic crisis of rural youth -- 3. Conflict in Sierra Leone and recruits to the war -- 4. The world of the RUF -- 5. Malfunctions and atrocities -- 6. Cultivating peace: RUF ex-combatants' involvement in post-war agricultural projects -- 7. Footpaths to reintegration?: agrarian solutions for the reintegration of ex-combatants -- 8. Conclusion: the RUF as a rural underclass project. 330 $aThe armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently incomplete understanding of the conflict by focusing on the direct experiences and interpretations of protagonists, paying special attention to the hitherto neglected, and often underage, cadres of the RUF. The data presented challenges the widely canvassed notion of the Sierra Leone conflict as a war motivated by 'greed, not grievance'. 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The media context -- 2. Why does freedom of the press matter? -- 3. Patterns of repression -- 4. Whose failures? -- 5. Conclusion : press censorship and social equilibrium -- Appendix. My final statement of shared purpose. 330 $aWhen Africa stumbled into independence in the 1960's, the blossoming of newspapers of nearly every political persuasion was widely hailed as a critical stepping stone toward true multiparty democracy. However, rather than marking a clean break with an authoritarian past, the era of multiparty politics in Africa has been a time of increased hardship and repression for journalists who dare criticize powerful incumbents. Media repression continues to rise. After decades of retreat, authoritarian regimes are using social media and other sophisticated systems in a new era of repression to thwart democracy and trample human rights. For consecutive decades, the state of freedom has declined - more people in more places face more repression. 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