Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict

Berdal, Mats; Ucko, David H.

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“…E-mail: enzonussio@hotmail.com around the world. Yet, the bulk of this literature is policy oriented, as Berdal and Ucko (2009) state and, according to Gomes, Parsons, and Alden (2007), the perspective of the target group of DDR processes-ex-combatantsremains underexplored (but see Annan, Brier, & Aryemo, 2009;Jennings, 2007;Utas, 2008). Allport (2009) recounts that World War II returnees to Britain experienced joy at arrival along with feelings of fear and regret.…”

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Emotional legacies of war among former Colombian paramilitaries.

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2012

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Drawing on 62 interviews with former members of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia), a right-wing paramilitary umbrella organization that fought against guerrilla groups and was involved in drug trafficking, I develop a model of the emotional legacies of war. The proposed model is critical to the understanding of ex-combatants' behavior in the context of postwar disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. This study connects three related elements: excombatants' recollection of their initial reason for joining the war and their war experiences, their present perception of those reasons and experiences, and an emotional legacy tied to their perceptions. I have designated the emotional residue that emerges from the remembered past, including regret, pride, resentment, nostalgia, and tiredness of being at war, an emotional legacy. These emotional legacies connect ex-combatants' perception of their past with the present.

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Emotional legacies of war among former Colombian paramilitaries.

Nussio¹

2012

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…8 In studies of DDR two recent edited Reconstruction contributors provide evidence-based findings on the implementation and effects of DDR. 9 This special journal issue seeks to add to these insights, by taking context as a central starting point for an inquiry into DDR, and thereby hopefully shedding additional new light on the concept and how it unfolds when applied in specific country settings.…”

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New avenues for research in the study of DDR

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2009

Conflict, Security & Development

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“…In the rare instances in which the literature on militias moves from this normative debate, the role of militias during peace processes and in post-conflict periods is mostly discussed with reference to the demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants (Alden et al, 2011;Aliyev, 2019aAliyev, , 2018bBerdal &Ucko, 2009;Daly, 2016;Humphreys & Weinstein, 2007;Jentzsch et al, 2015). Despite their qualitative differences from rebel organizations and anti-government militias, however, pro-government militias are usually lumped into the same general category of ex-combatants, and their role in post-conflict processes is analyzed as such.…”

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Peace Processes and the Integration of Pro-Government Militias: The Case of Village Guards in Turkey

Balta

Yüksel

Acar

2020

Armed Forces & Society

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Militia groups have only recently started to attract scholarly attention in the literature on internal conflicts. This attention is mostly focused on either the causes of their emergence or their functions and performance during the conflict. The role of militia groups in post-conflict processes, however, has not been adequately addressed. This article intends to fill this gap by analyzing the case of village guards, a type of pro-government militia system in Turkey, based on qualitative evidence from field research. While the dominant narrative in the literature identifies militia groups as spoilers in peace processes, the article shows that militias do not act as spoilers under certain conditions. In the case of the village guard system in Turkey, the permanent integration of militias into the state’s regular military apparatus prevented militia groups from acting as spoilers. It then argues that the permanent integration of wartime militia systems is a consequence of two factors: militia networking and a lack of comprehensive peace-building structures.

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Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict

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Emotional legacies of war among former Colombian paramilitaries.

Emotional legacies of war among former Colombian paramilitaries.

New avenues for research in the study of DDR

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