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Title: | The War and Its Aftermath: Social (Dis)integration, Traditional Justice and the Quest for Social Healing and Community Transformation in Northern Liberia | Contributor(s): | Lahai, John Idriss (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21415 | Abstract: | This study examines the nature of social (dis)integration during the Liberian Civil War and the engendered nature of wartime violence and patterns of community dislocation in Northern Liberia. While communities disintegrated and relationships were broken, the levels of interaction also meant that societies where re-created. In the aftermath of the conflict, the need to rebuild relationships and prevent the eruption of further violence led to contested visions of and routes to reconciliation. In Northern Liberia, as demonstrated in this article, inasmuch as people were receptive to the conventional methods of seeking justice and peace, the ritualized nature of the war also meant that people sought other non-conventional and traditional means to deal with culturally sensitive violence issues as a way of memorializing the past and prevent manage post-war incidences of violence. Using a longitudinal folknographic research method, this paper explores the role of traditional justice processes in community transformation and social healing in Northern Liberia. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | West Africa Review, v.25, p. 25-46 | Publisher: | Africa Resource Center Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1525-4488 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology 160199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440102 Anthropology of gender and sexuality 440199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified 449999 Other human society not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950501 Understanding Africa's Past 940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130701 Understanding Africa’s past 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | https://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/war/article/view/1967 |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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