Stuck - Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood

Informationen zum Autor MARC SOMMERS is the award-winning author of ten books, including The Outcast Majority: War, Development , and Youth in Africa and Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood (both Georgia). His career has blended peacebuilding and diplomacy with field research and teaching. He uses trust-based methods to address challenges involving youth, conflict, education, gender, systemic exclusion, and violent extremism. Klappentext Featuring insightful interviews with youth, adults, and government officials, Stuck tells the story of an ambitious, controlling government trying to gov­ern an exceptionally young and poor population in a densely populated and rapidly urbanizing country. This pioneering book sheds new light on the struggle to come of age and suggests new pathways toward the attainment of security, development, and coexistence in Africa and beyond. Zusammenfassung Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human popu­lation today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Stuck demonstrates how the Central African nation of Rwanda provides a compelling setting for grasping new challenges to the world’s youth.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Sommers
• Assisted by: Gary Bertsch (Editor), Howard Wiarda (Editor), Howard J. Wiarda (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9780820338910
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3891-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and Intern
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education