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Education | War and Women's Resistance in Liberia

An introduction to the Liberian civil war.

10/05/2011 | Rating NR

Women War and Peace

Education | War and Women's Resistance in Liberia

Clip: Season 1 | 6m 3s

An introduction to the Liberian civil war.

An introduction to the Liberian civil war, which began in 1989, and the birth of that country's women's resistance movement.

10/05/2011 | Rating NR

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