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| Author | : J. McMullin |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2013-08-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137312939 |
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
| Author | : Johanna Söderström |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2014-12-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317649397 |
The book examines how ex-combatants in post-war and peacebuilding settings engage in politics, as seen in the case of Liberia. The political mobilization of former combatants after war is often perceived as a threat, ultimately undermining the security and stability of the state. This book questions this simplified view and argues that understanding the political voice of former combatants is imperative. Their post-war role is not black and white; they are not just bad or good citizens, but rather engage in multiple political roles: spoilers, victims, disengaged, beneficiaries, as well as motivated and active citizens. By looking at the political attitudes and values of former combatants, and their understanding of how politics functions, the book sheds new light on the political reintegration of ex-combatants. It argues that political reintegration needs to be given serious attention at the micro-level, but also needs to be scrutinized in two ways: first, through the level of political involvement, which reflects the extent and width of the ex-combatants’ voice. Second, in order to make sense of political reintegration, we also need to uncover what values and norms inform their political involvement. The content of their political voice is captured through a comparison with democratic ideals. Based on interviews with over 100 Liberian ex-combatants, the book highlights that their relationship with politics overall should be characterized as an expression of a 'politics of affection'. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, African politics, democratization, political sociology, conflict resolution and IR/Security Studies in general.
| Author | : Astri Suhrke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2013-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136671935 |
This volume examines the causes and purposes of 'post-conflict' violence. The end of a war is generally expected to be followed by an end to collective violence, as the term ‘post-conflict’ that came into general usage in the 1990s signifies. In reality, however, various forms of deadly violence continue, and sometimes even increase after the big guns have been silenced and a peace agreement signed. Explanations for this and other kinds of violence fall roughly into two broad categories – those that stress the legacies of the war and those that focus on the conditions of the peace. There are significant gaps in the literature, most importantly arising from the common premise that there is one, predominant type of post-war situation. This ‘post-war state’ is often endowed with certain generic features that predispose it towards violence, such as a weak state, criminal elements generated by the war-time economy, demobilized but not demilitarized or reintegrated ex-combatants, impunity and rapid liberalization. The premise of this volume differs. It argues that features which constrain or encourage violence stack up in ways to create distinct and different types of post-war environments. Critical factors that shape the post-war environment in this respect lie in the war-to-peace transition itself, above all the outcome of the war in terms of military and political power and its relationship to social hierarchies of power, normative understandings of the post-war order, and the international context. This book will of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, peacebuilding and IR/Security Studies in general.
| Author | : W. Kilroy |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-04-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781137428981 |
Reintegration programmes for ex-combatants are supposed to support the wider peace process. This study, based on detailed fieldwork, looks at the way they were carried out in Sierra Leone and Liberia and assesses the degree to which they were conducted in a participatory way.
| Author | : John D. Brewer |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2022-02-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9783030615680 |
This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants’ subsequent engagement – or not – in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.
| Author | : Christine Cheng |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199673349 |
This book examines how the economic survival strategies of former fighters in Liberia can help explain the trajectories of war-to-peace transitions.
| Author | : John D. Brewer |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2021-02-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030615669 |
This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants’ subsequent engagement – or not – in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.
| Author | : Johanna Söderström |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2014-12-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317649389 |
The book examines how ex-combatants in post-war and peacebuilding settings engage in politics, as seen in the case of Liberia. The political mobilization of former combatants after war is often perceived as a threat, ultimately undermining the security and stability of the state. This book questions this simplified view and argues that understanding the political voice of former combatants is imperative. Their post-war role is not black and white; they are not just bad or good citizens, but rather engage in multiple political roles: spoilers, victims, disengaged, beneficiaries, as well as motivated and active citizens. By looking at the political attitudes and values of former combatants, and their understanding of how politics functions, the book sheds new light on the political reintegration of ex-combatants. It argues that political reintegration needs to be given serious attention at the micro-level, but also needs to be scrutinized in two ways: first, through the level of political involvement, which reflects the extent and width of the ex-combatants’ voice. Second, in order to make sense of political reintegration, we also need to uncover what values and norms inform their political involvement. The content of their political voice is captured through a comparison with democratic ideals. Based on interviews with over 100 Liberian ex-combatants, the book highlights that their relationship with politics overall should be characterized as an expression of a 'politics of affection'. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, African politics, democratization, political sociology, conflict resolution and IR/Security Studies in general.
| Author | : Ryan Westlake |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Why do some post-civil war states establish a durable peace while others remain stuck in a cycle of violence? Post-civil war states have many obstacles to overcome even after an agreement for peace is reached. Ex-combatants often threaten the legitimacy of the post-conflict government, therefore threatening the overall stability in the state. A solution to this threat becoming popular for use in post-civil war states is implementing disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs. DDR programs function to first reduce the physical threat of ex-combatants and then streamline their transition back into society. There are many other mechanisms available for post-conflict governments to implement in order to pursue justice and establish peace, often referred to as transitional justice mechanisms. These mechanisms include amnesty (impunity), exiles (forced or voluntary retreat of individuals from a certain side of the conflict from the country), prosecutions (judicial accountability measures), purges (removing individuals from a certain side of the conflict from public office positions), reparations (providing resources or support for victims of the conflict), and truth commissions (an extrajudicial process that aims to get the full story of the conflict). I am interested in the potential for DDR programs and transitional justice mechanisms to interact in ways that reduce the likelihood of conflict recurrence in post-civil war states. Since it has been found that focusing on reconciliation in the context of transitional justice yields the best results, I conduct a Cox Proportional Hazards model, complimented by a case study on the conflict in Colombia, to see if this logic holds true with DDR programs. I find that post-civil war states which implement both a DDR program and at least one grievance-motivated transitional justice mechanism have a lower likelihood of returning to conflict than those that do not.
| Author | : Veronique Dudouet |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2012-01-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1136462716 |
This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance. The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security transition processes based on five years of participatory research with local experts and representatives of former non-state armed groups. It analyses the successes and limits of peace negotiations, demobilisation, arms management, political or security sector integration, socio-economic reintegration and state reform from the direct point of view of conflict stakeholders who have been central participants in ongoing and past peacebuilding processes. Challenging common perceptions of ex-combatants as "spoilers" or "passive recipients of aid", the various contributors examine the post-war transitions of these individuals from state challengers to peacebuilding agents. The book concludes on a cross-country comparative analysis of the main research findings and the ways in which they may facilitate a participatory, inclusive and gender-sensitive peacebuilding strategy. Post-War Security Transitions will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, security governance, war and conflict studies, political violence and IR in general.
