Researching young people's experiences of war: Participatory methods and the trauma discourse in Angola

Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

Volumn 14, Issue , 2004, Pages 189-208

  Eyber, Carola ^a   Ager, Alastair ^a,b,c  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

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