"An Armed Group as Human Network: the Formation and Restructuring of Kamajor/CDF in Sierra Leone" (Submitted to Department of Human Sciences, Osaka University) In Japanese 　

Okano, Hideyuki“Too Extreme to be True: Unshared Images of Soldiers in Sub-Sahara Africa,” Embacher, Helga, Grazia Prontera, Albert Lichtblau, Dieter Steinert, Wolfgang Aschauer, Darek Galasinski, and John Buckley (eds.). Children and War: Past and Present. West Midland: Helion, 2013.

“Victims and Thugs: Unshared Images of Soldiers in Sub-Sahara Africa”, Children and War: Past and Present, University of Saltsburg, Austria, 30th, Sep. 2010.

“Accidental Career Change, or Seeking a Stable Status: Mobilization and Cross-factional Movement of Combatants in the First Liberian Civil War,”Global Insecutiries: Insurgency, Development, and World Order 10 Years On, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, England, 5th, Sep. 2011.

“Does the Number of Armed Conflicts Increase in the 1990s in Sub-Sahara Africa?: Reveal the Invisible Divide of Conflict Trends between the 1980s and 90s,” Second Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference, Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology and Science, 22nd, Sep. 2012

“Bridge the Gap between Qualitative and Quantitative Researches: Hidden Trends of Armed Conflicts in Sub-Sahara Africa during the 1990s,” 2012 Annual Conference, the Japan Association for Human Security Studies, 30th, Sep. 2012 Paper (external link)

"Human Network in and around an Armed Group: The Interwoven Thread of the Local, National, and Global Dimensions in the Kamajors of Sierra Leone" Panel: Anthropology of peace and war in contemporary Asia and Africa: reflections on the meaning of 'hybridity' and 'the everyday' in conflict studies, the 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences(IUAES), 7, Aug, 2013, University of Manchester. Abstracts of the panel (PDF: 116K) and My handouts (PDF: 692K)

"Witch Doctors in an Institutionalized Oraganization: 'Modernity of Witchcraft' in the Civil War of Sierra Leone" Panel: Citizenship, Violence and Power: Re-invention of Modern Nation State in Africa, IUAES Inter-Congress 2014, 15, May, 2014, Makuhari Messe (Chiba, JAPAN). Abstract(PDF: 68K) and Presentation Transcript (PDF: 900K)

"Public Authorization of an Informal Sector Activities: Institutionalization of Motorbike Taxi Business in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone " 3rd International Forum of “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing ‘African Potentials”, 6-8, December, 2014 (Yaounde, Cameroon). Paper(PDF: 648K)

OKA's English Contributions (Hideyuki, OKANO)