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8 - ‘New Wars: Forgotten Warriors’: Why Have Girl Fighters Been Excluded from Western Representations of Conflict in Sierra Leone?

  • Alice Macdonald
    Alice Macdonald
    The Mill House, Ringstead Road, Sedgeford, Hunstanton, Norfolk, PE36 5NQ. Email: alicem1983@yahoo.co.uk.
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conflit enfants soldats genre guerre Sierra Leone

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  • Alice Macdonald

    The Mill House, Ringstead Road, Sedgeford, Hunstanton, Norfolk, PE36 5NQ. Email: alicem1983@yahoo.co.uk.

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