Taming the Unruly: The Integration of Informal Northern Afghan Militias into the Afghan Local Police

Gosztonyi, Kristóf; Koehler, Jan; Feda, Basir

doi:10.5771/0175-274x-2015-4-46

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“…An empirical study on the integration of unregulated anti-Taliban militias (Arbakee) into the Afghan Local Police in 2011 and 2012 suggested a rise in the militias' performance and their improved perception in the eyes of the population (Gosztonyi, Koehler & Feda, 2015). The case of militia integration in Nepal is slightly different since the Maoist combatants were the rebel group in Nepal contrary to Arbakees, who were formed to resist the Taliban rebels locally.…”

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The Impact of Criteria and Flexibility in Nepal’s Rebel-Military Integration Program

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2022

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The integration of rebel combatants into regular forces is often a political negation for power. Several examples from the past show how such pursuits have brought about mutinies and communal violence and pushed the countries back to instability. Current literatures do not provide success stories from which crucial elements of rebel-military programs can be extracted for implementation in future programs. The thesis statement presented by the study is that conflicting parties need to invent options for mutual gain, which can be achieved using flexibility and standard criteria when all other means to achieve an agreement fail. In this regard, Nepal’s rebel-military integration process presents a unique case where former Maoist militias were integrated into the Nepali Army as individuals and after fulfilling the toned-down institutional criteria requirements. Using a qualitative design, the study of the rebel-military integration program in Nepal identified the areas within the program that adopted adequate flexibility and criteria fulfillment, and explored how those potentially led to the successful integration of ex-Maoist combatants into the Nepali Army. In order to analyze this information, secondary data such as the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007, the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA), 2006, integration program documents, journal and news articles, and organizational reports were reviewed. For the cross-validation of information, Key Personnel Interviews were conducted with program executives and Nepali Army representative, and Focus Group Discussions were conducted with regular as well Signposting in abstract and in paragraphs in the paper: It is a good idea to give a structural overview of your key arguments in the paper, for example, Part I deals with… Part II deals with.. The data analysis involved a qualitative exploratory approach in order to analyze the causal variables as discussed in the preceding research design section. The different sources of data allowed data-triangulation in order to better explore which elements of the program applied criteria and flexibility and to what degree, as well as how they impacted the integration process. The details are discussed in the subsequent sections-

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The Impact of Criteria and Flexibility in Nepal’s Rebel-Military Integration Program

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State formation as it happens: insights from a repeated cross-sectional study in Afghanistan, 2007–2015

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This paper contributes to an empirical understanding of state formation. Based on an original household-level data set, we provide a detailed picture of the process of state formation in Afghanistan over the last decade. State formation happens when state and society engage in reciprocal relations. Central to this relationship is an exchange of services for the acceptance of authority and increased legitimacy. Our data allows us to assess state-society relations across different dimensions. We focus on the provision of services, on the responsiveness of the state, on conflict regulation and on taxation. In result we find more evidence of state formation than expected but also see this as a contested process that unfolds unevenly and with different speed across different sectors.

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Taming the Unruly: The Integration of Informal Northern Afghan Militias into the Afghan Local Police

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The Impact of Criteria and Flexibility in Nepal’s Rebel-Military Integration Program

The Impact of Criteria and Flexibility in Nepal’s Rebel-Military Integration Program

State formation as it happens: insights from a repeated cross-sectional study in Afghanistan, 2007–2015

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