Liberia

Our culture and tradition are fading away with great speed. As one of our culture's components and ingredients, the original procedure for customary marriage is seriously on the …

Rebel groups exhibit significant variation in their treatment of civilians, with profound humanitarian consequences. This book proposes a new theory of rebel behavior and cohesion …

Elections have been used as a mechanism to institutionalize a new political order following internal conflict in Cambodia, El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, Bosnia, and now Liberia. …

Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire-seeking out the tyrants and military …

Jacqueline er en ung flyktning fra terrorregimet i Liberia. Eksilets lunefulle veier har ført henne til en gresk ferieøy, hvor hun kjemper for å overleve. Hun rydder seg soveplass …

The stories in this volume explore the human dilemma in all its manifestations: longing, grief, indecision, heartbreak and slow, slow recuperation. It takes readers from the …

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatan …

It had been Graham Greene's idea to explore tropical West Africa. The map of Liberia was virtually blank, the interior marked 'cannibals'. It was a far cry from the literary …

The Women in Blue Helmetstells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. Lesley J. Pruitt …

In 2009 Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights,” but …