Ex-combatant agency and re-recruitment

Podder, Sukanya

doi:10.1080/21624887.2017.1329474

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“…In the end no single factor can fully explain remobilisation to war (Podder 2017). Yet what occurred in the south-eastern Grand Gedeh County in 2010–2013 may offer some possible explanations.…”

Section: Remobilisation Of Liberian Former Combatantsmentioning

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‘Once a combatant, always a combatant’? Revisiting assumptions about Liberian former combatant networks

Käihkö

2022

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Building on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article draws from military sociology to revisit past portrayals of Liberian former combatant networks and assesses four central assumptions connected to them: that formal wartime command structures continue as informal networks long after the end of the war; that former combatants are united by a wartime identity and form a community to an extent separated from the surrounding society; that wartime experiences have had a major disciplining effect on former combatants; and that former combatants are both good mobilisers and easy to mobilise in elections and armed conflict alike. Finding limited evidence close to two decades after the end of war to support these assumptions, I ultimately ask whether it would be more productive to both theory and Liberians alike to widen investigation from former combatants to structural issues that affect many more in the country.

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Section: Remobilisation Of Liberian Former Combatantsmentioning

confidence: 99%