Evaluation of the Post-Insurgency Rehabilitation Program in Sri Lanka

Khan, Ilam; Minhas, Ahmed Saeed; Satti, Hajra Nasir

doi:10.31703/grr.2018(iii-i).06

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“…Rehabilitation is a practice that seeks to transform or normalize a criminal into a socially defined 'normal' citizen through different actions which may include psychological counseling, interpersonal assistance (i.e., education and family intervention), and structural assistance (i.e., employment and economic opportunities) (e.g., Anderson & Gröning, 2016). Abbasi (2014) and Khan (2018) contend that rehabilitation refers to policies that intend to reform criminals instead of punishing or isolating them from the community. Hence, this research also conceives 'rehabilitation' as a process involving necessary education and training to transform (violent) extremists and reintegrate them into society as useful citizens.…”

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De-Radicalization, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Juvenile Militants in Pakistan: A Case Study of Sabaoon

Khyber¹,

Aman²,

Ali³

2022

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In the wake of a protracted militancy in the Malakand region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the post-2007 military operations in the Swat valley culminated in the soft counter-insurgency approach under the De-Radicalization and Emancipation Programs (DREP). In doing so, Sabaoon was established in 2009 as the first de-radicalization initiative in Pakistan and the only program in the world to de-radicalize juvenile militants associated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Furthermore, Saboon focused on reintegrating the juvenile into their communities as productive and valuable citizens. By drawing on primary and secondary data sources, this paper attempts to highlight the push and pull factors that led the children towards militancy, their rehabilitation methods and techniques used at Sabaoon, and the impacts of the rehabilitation program on reintegration into society. The paper argues that the Sabaoon program aimed to promote religious harmony and tolerance by addressing the ideological and social problems that drove the children towards militancy. The study further argues that most reintegrated children are now running their own small businesses, such as auto-mechanic workshops, carpentry, electronic appliances repair, etc., while some serve in government and non-government institutions. However, the data also suggests a higher recidivism ratio among these juveniles.

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De-Radicalization, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Juvenile Militants in Pakistan: A Case Study of Sabaoon

Khyber¹,

Aman²,

Ali³

2022

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“…In contrast, a larger number of studies have pointed to difficulties of reintegration. The success of a post-war DDR process is measured by the success of the reintegration of former combatants (Khan et al 2018). Given the constraints of access to ex-combatants while on the rehabilitation programme, and the ethical challenges associated with this situation, many researchers approached ex-combatants only after they had been released for reintegration into the community.…”

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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice

Elcheroth¹,

Mel²

2021

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This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other hand, collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice, including legal prosecution, truth-seeking and reparations, alongside memorialization.The 15 chapters included in the volume, written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds, explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past, and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justiceor indeed any societal engagement with the pastmore transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width, the book features two key case analyses -South Africa and Sri Lankaalongside discussions of multiple cases, including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina, but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice, such as Turkey or Côte d'Ivoire. The different contributions, grouped in themed sections, progressively explore the issues, actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and, in doing so, open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice.

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Evaluation of the Post-Insurgency Rehabilitation Program in Sri Lanka

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De-Radicalization, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Juvenile Militants in Pakistan: A Case Study of Sabaoon

De-Radicalization, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Juvenile Militants in Pakistan: A Case Study of Sabaoon

In the Shadow of Transitional Justice

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