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Author: Caesar Poblicks

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Caesar Poblicks

Caesar Poblicks is the East and Central Africa Projects Manager at Conciliation Resources. He has led Conciliation Resources' work in the Central African Republic for the past seven years and advised the CAR government on its approach to reconciliation.

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    Central African RepublicSociety
    By Caesar Poblicks
    April 16, 2018
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    “I just want to live like a normal man”: What’s stopping CAR disarming?

    Speaking to combatants in the Central African Republic reveals their true motivations for taking up arms.  The ongoing instability in the Central African Republic (CAR) is ...
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