During the war in Sierra Leone (1991 2002), members of various
rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of
whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside
the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime,
Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to
bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone.
When these girls and women returned to their home villages after
the cessation of hostilities, their families and peers viewed them
with skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations saw them
primarily as victims. Neither view was particularly helpful in
helping them resume normal lives after the war. Offering lessons
for policymakers, practitioners, and activists, Coulter shows how
prevailing notions of gender, both in home communities and among
NGO workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part in
armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitarization and
demobilization processes carried out by the international community
in the wake of the war. Many of these women found it extremely
difficult to return to their families, and, without institutional
support, some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a
living.
Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the
nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace,
and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship
relations."
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