Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Decade of War-Centuries of Uncertainty -- 2. Gendered Lives in Rural Sierra Leone -- 3. Abduction and Everyday Rebel Life -- 4. From Rape Victims to Female Fighters -- 5. Reconciliation or Revenge -- 6. Surviving the Postwar Economy --...

There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...