Just keeping them busy? youth employment projects as a peacebuilding tool

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-117

  Izzi, Valeria ^a  

^a Independent Consultant   (Denmark)

Author keywords

conflict; employment; Guinea Bissau; Liberia; peacebuilding; Sierra Leone; violence; youth

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNMENT; PEACEKEEPING; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); VIOLENCE; YOUNG POPULATION;

GUINEA-BISSAU; LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA]; SIERRA LEONE;

HARNESS;

EID: 84885442388     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: 14783401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.2013.8     Document Type: Article

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