Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone: Sex, Security, and Post-Conflict Development
Megan H. MacKenzie
Abstract
The eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 was incomprehensibly brutal—it is estimated that half of all female refugees were raped and many thousands were killed. While the publicity surrounding sexual violence helped to create a general picture of women and girls as victims of the conflict, there has been little effort to understand female soldiers' involvement in, and experience of, the conflict. This book draws on interviews with seventy-five former female soldiers and over twenty local experts, providing a rare perspective on both the civil war and post-conflict developmen ... More
Keywords: Sierra Leone Civil War, female refugees, rape, sexual violence, female soldiers, post-conflict development, post-conflict reconstruction
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780814761373 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814761373.001.0001 |
