Join us at 5:00pm at the FedEx Global Education Center on Tuesday, November 14 for a talk with Marc Sommers, a peacebuilding and conflict expert who has worked as a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of State and the Department of Defense and served in 22 war-affected countries during his career. Marc will be discussing his new book, We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (University of Georgia Press, 2023), which explores how three transatlantic pop culture figures – Tupac Shakur, Bob Marley, and Rambo – influenced youth in Sierra Leone during the country’s long civil war at the turn of the century, radicalizing warfare and shaping peacetime.

tuesday, November 14, 2023 | 5 – 6 p.m.