Breaking up and Going Home? Contesting Two Assumptions in the Demobilization and Reintegration of Former Combatants

Vries, Hugo de; Wiegink, Nikkie

doi:10.1080/13533312.2011.527506

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“…The image of the 'forced fighter' abducted against his or her will from her home contributes further to this idea. As I argued elsewhere, what home is, and how it was transformed during the war is often not taken into consideration (De Vries and Wiegink 2011;Wiegink 2013a). Yet such assumptions feed the expectation that rebel groups will disband after they are disarmed and demobilised.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As scholarship on former combatants has shown, however, an armed group consists of far more social relationships than military hierarchy. Consider for example the comradeship among fellow fighters (Grossman 1995), the en masse recruitment of peers from the same village (De Vries and Wiegink 2011), and patron-client relationships (Hoffman 2007: 660;Munive and Jakobsen 2012;Themnér 2012). In Mozambique, the soldiers did not 'fade away' as Alden (2002) argued.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Former Military Networks a Threat to Peace? The Demobilisation and Remobilization of Renamo in Central Mozambique

Wiegink

2015

Stability: International Journal of Security &Amp; Development

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Former Military Networks a Threat to Peace? The Demobilisation and Remobilization of Renamo in Central Mozambique

Wiegink

2015

Stability: International Journal of Security &Amp; Development

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“…Since prior links and hierarchies so often form part of the reintegration process, many observers have raised the question of how organizations/groups of combatants can transform into entities with a different role in a more peaceful society, rather than being dismantled (Jensen and Stepputat 2001;Knight 2008;de Vries and Wiegink 2011;Munive and Jakobsen 2012). From a stateformation perspective, Giustozzi (2012) argues that organizations of former combatants historically have had important roles in the political processes following armed conflict.…”

Section: Assumptions About Reintegrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programs

Munive

Stepputat

2015

Stability: International Journal of Security &Amp; Development

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This article introduces the special issue on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and 'Armed Non-Statutory Actors' (ANSAs), whose title we prefer to the less precise label of Armed Non-State Actors. The understanding that DDR programs are essential in helping to prevent the recurrence of war in post-conflict situations is at the heart of current peacebuilding practice and the academic literature on peacekeeping and stabilization. However, the changing strategic context of DDR programs and in particular the proliferation of ANSAs presents new challenges, the responses to which have been characterized as 'second generation' DDR. The changing context poses new questions and forces us to rethink assumptions and templates of DDR as the concept is blurred and expanded. The main question is if it makes sense to hold on to the concept or whether the assumptions associated with it will impede the rethinking of templates for violence reduction in the future.

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“…40 Brewer 1999. 41 See for example Humphreys and Weinstein 2007;Themnér 2011;de Vries and Wiegink 2011;Zyck 2009. 42 Ashforth and Mael 1989. into violence.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%