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Introduction: Everyday Life in Postwar Sierra Leone
- Africa Today
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 58, Number 2, Winter 2011
- pp. v-xii
- 10.2979/africatoday.58.2.v
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Peace begins when people find violence the worst threat of all. With this, the fears and beliefs in force wane and support for violent solutions withers as a search for creative non-aggressive solutions waxes. This isn't merely a political process. It is forged in the center of daily life. It is carried through simple conversations and philosophical debates; crafted in art and reproduced in music; relayed in folktales and honed in literature. (Nordstrom 2004:181)