Intergenerational solidarity and reciprocity are fundamental building blocks of any society. At the same time, socio-generational groups constantly struggle for influence and authority. In Sub-Saharan Africa, disproportionately male, gerontocratic and patrimonial systems governing economic, social and political life lend a special explosiveness to the social cleavage of generation. This dissertation draws on the concept of the generational contract to explore whether Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war (1991-2001) – labelled a ‘revolt of youth’ – catalysed changes in the power-asymmetries between age groups. Based on fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2010, I argue that youth in post-war Sierra Leone question fundamental norms of intergenerational relations and challenge local governance structures demanding changes to the generational contract. Amidst a strong continuity of gerontocratic dominance and counter-strategies from elders, youth draw on organisational forms and a local rights discourse to create spaces for contestation and negotiation. These openings hold potential for long-term rearrangements of societal relations in the medium to long-term future.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:28:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Christiane Macarron Frascino.pdf: 413545 bytes, checksum: a01da6922f262b00e8f38459e6407fdc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-24 / The legal system absorbs the social facts and transforms itself according to the interests, desires, ethic and moral values which predominate in the society that is worried with balance, justice and its social aspect. The unfair payment of indemnification is denied by the individuals and those factors determine that the victim shall not stay without any sort of reparation, even in case of damage caused by a disabled, but financially able to pay for at least part of such indemnification. Thus, based on equity, it was introduced in our legal system that The disabled is liable for the damage that he may cause, if the ones for him responsible are not obliged to do so or do not possess the means for that. (Article 928 from the Civil Code of 2002 caput). However, as it deals with disabled people, the liability of indemnifying is subsidiary to the one of his legal representative or responsible person and must attend the concepts from the unique paragraph from the article 928: The indemnification predicted in this article, that shall be equitable, will not be valid if it removes from the disabled person his basic needs or even from the ones dependent on him. The current Civil Code followed the world tendency of making the victim in dene, whenever possible, based on the sociality, human being dignity, justice feeling, and when it comes to the disabled person, especially, on equity, that became the main point of the law enforcer. Such are the requirements for the assets of the disabled to answer for the damages caused by him: (i) the illegal act performed by the disabled would make a legally capable person responsible, in a similar situation; (ii) causation between fact and damage, injury (iii) that his responsible does not have the legal duty to answer for the damage or cannot afford the indemnification; (iv) fixation of equity as it is impossible to compromise his survival or his dependent s basic needs. Consequently, it tends to promote the social life of the disabled, granting them guarantees of constitutional rights and integration, and to the society a better result concerning the indemnification of possible damage caused by them. Although the victim shall stay with no due reparation if the responsible person does not have the legal duty for that or, no means to support such indemnification, and the disabled could not afford any indemnification without losing his basic needs for survival or of his dependents / O ordenamento jurídico absorve os fatos sociais e se transforma de acordo com os interesses, anseios e valores éticos e morais predominantes na sociedade, que hoje se preocupa com o equilíbrio, a justiça, o social. O dano injusto é repudiado pelos indivíduos e esses fatores determinaram que a vítima não deve ficar sem alguma reparação, mesmo diante de um dano causado por pessoa incapaz, mas com condições financeiras para arcar com pelo menos parte da reparação. Nesse sentido, com fundamento na eqüidade, foi introduzido em nosso ordenamento jurídico que O incapaz responde pelos prejuízos que causar, se as pessoas por ele responsáveis não tiverem obrigação de fazê-lo ou não dispuserem de meios suficientes (art. 928, caput, do CC de 2002). Entretanto, por se tratar de pessoa incapaz, a obrigação de reparar é subsidiária à do seu responsável e deverá atender aos preceitos do parágrafo único do art. 928: A indenização prevista neste artigo, que deverá ser eqüitativa, não terá lugar se privar do necessário o incapaz ou as pessoas que dele dependem . O atual Código Civil acompanhou a tendência mundial de tornar a vítima in dene, sempre que possível, calcada na socialidade, na dignidade da pessoa humana, no sentimento de justiça e, tratando-se do incapaz, principalmente, na eqüidade, que direciona o aplicador do direito. São requisitos para que o patrimônio do incapaz responda pelos danos a que der causa: (i) que o ato danoso praticado pelo incapaz responsabilize pessoa imputável em circunstância análoga; (ii) que haja nexo de causalidade entre o fato e o dano; (iii) que o seu responsável não tenha o dever legal de fazê-lo ou não tenha meios para arcar com a reparação; (iv) fixação com eqüidade em face da impossibilidade de comprometer seu sustento ou de seus dependentes. Dessa forma, pretende-se incentivar o convívio social do incapaz, garantindo-lhe o direito constitucional de integração e à sociedade uma maior eficácia da reparação de eventuais danos causados por ele. Mas a vítima ficará sem a devida reparação dos prejuízos que sofreu por ato praticado por incapaz se o responsável não tiver a obrigação legal ou não dispuser de meios suficientes e o incapaz não tiver condições de arcar com qualquer reparação sem comprometer seu sustento ou o de seus dependentes