Liberia's Women Veterans

Leena Vastapuu earned her doctoral degree from the University of Turku, Finland in 2017. She has written and researched widely on warfare and humanitarian issues, with a particular interest in the impact of conflict on women and gender roles. This is her first book.Emmi Nieminen is a visual artist specialising in comics and graphic storytelling. Nieminen's work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Taiwan and Switzerland, and has been published in various anthologies in Finnish, English and German. Currently, Nieminen lives and works in Tampere, Finland, and is part of the Tampere Kunsthalle collective. She has been nominated twice for the Sarjakuva-Finlandia award.

• Preface: Liberia at WarIntroduction: Hell is the Absolute Lack of Being Heard1. Auto-Photographing Rivers of Insecurities2. Young Female Soldiers in Liberia’s Civil Wars3. DDR: Disarmament, Disillusionment and Remarginalization4. Social Rafting in Post-War Liberia5. Let my Children’s Future be AlrightConclusionEpilogue: ‘When I sing, I can forget about my problems’

A beautiful meditation on the ways in which young female veterans in Liberia navigate life after war. Employing a set of unique methodologies, Liberia’s Women Veterans will become a key text in its field.