Making sense of violence: Voices of soldiers in the Congo (DRC)

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-86

  Baaz, Maria Eriksson ^a   Stern, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONSHIP; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNOPOLITICS; MILITARY INTERVENTION; STATE ROLE; VIOLENCE;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONGO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 38949128646     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X07003072     Document Type: Article

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