Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State: Challenges of Reintegration by J. McM

Description: Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State by J. McMullin This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Author Biography Jaremey R. McMullin is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has published research on post-conflict transition and ex-combatant reintegration in International Peacekeeping, Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, and Civil Wars. He has also written reports on ex-combatant reintegration in Liberia and Burundi for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Table of Contents Introduction: Reintegration into What? 1. Conceptualizing Reintegration Challenges 2. The Advent of the Ex-Combatant: A Critical History of Reintegration 3. Namibia: Jobs for Some 4. Mozambique: Cash for All 5. Sierra Leone: Trained for Jobs that Werent There 6. Liberia: Reintegration 2.0? Conclusion: Like Everyone Else Review "This is a deeply compelling and richly researched account of the big business of post-conflict reintegration programs for ex-combatants. International efforts in these programs have a taken-for-granted set of assumptions both tacit and acknowledged and contradictions that McMullin identifies with rigorous ethnographic and historical analysis. A must-read for anyoneworking on or with the worlds many post-war recovery and development efforts. Lucidly written and focused on solutions for the future." - Catherine Lutz, Brown University, USA"When re-entering civilian life I wish that the ex-combatants I have been researching would have benefitted from some of the insights this book gives. Generally humanitarian aid-workers know little of the local context and therefore do so many things wrong during Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) exercises. If you read this book and take some of the important findings back into the field it will greatly help not just ex-combatant reintegration efforts but entire societies struggling to get back on their feet after civil wars If you dont it is just business as usual." - Mats Utas, The Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden"This is a well-researched book that makes an important contribution to the debate about disarmament, demobilization and reintegration. Built on a combination of theoretical insights and detailed empirical work in a number of countries the author argues convincingly for an approach beyond the narrow focus of security concerns. The result is a fine piece of work that contributes to the new critical literature about the many aspects of peacekeeping and peace-building that situates itself in the realm of political ethnography." - Morten BØås, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway Long Description The reintegration of ex-combatants after conflict is a crucial peacebuilding task, but several challenges stand in the way of efforts to successfully assist ex-combatants after war. Drawing on extensive field research including nearly 200 interviews with policy practitioners, government officials, and ex-combatants themselves, this book critically examines these challenges by analyzing reintegration policy and outcomes in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. McMullin presents a troubling contradiction in the conventional wisdom about peacebuilding as it relates to ex-combatants: limited economic opportunities and short term assistance programs mean that reintegration tends to be back into the poverty and marginalization that contributed to war in the first place. Can reintegration back into poverty be called successful? This book will appeal to scholars of political violence, security studies, peacekeeping and peace building, transitional justice, social policy after war, and peace and conflict studies. Review Quote "This is a deeply compelling and richly researched account of the "big business" of post-conflict reintegration programs for ex-combatants. International efforts in these programs have a taken-for-granted set of assumptions - both tacit and acknowledged - and contradictions that McMullin identifies with rigorous ethnographic and historical analysis. A must-read for anyone working on or with the worlds many post-war recovery and development efforts. Lucidly written and focused on solutions for the future." - Catherine Lutz, Brown University, USA "When re-entering civilian life I wish that the ex-combatants I have been researching would have benefitted from some of the insights this book gives. Generally humanitarian aid-workers know little of the local context and therefore do so many things wrong during Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) exercises. If you read this book and take some of the important findings back into the field it will greatly help not just ex-combatants reintegration efforts but entire societies struggling to get back on its feet after civil wars If you dont it is just business as usual." - Mats Utas, The Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden Details ISBN023029099X Series Rethinking Political Violence Language English ISBN-10 023029099X ISBN-13 9780230290990 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-08-20 Pages 329 Short Title EX-COMBATANTS & THE POST-CONFL Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Challenges of Reintegration Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2013-08-20 AU Release Date 2013-08-20 NZ Release Date 2013-08-20 Author J. McMullin Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Alternative 9781349331796 DEWEY 327.172096 Illustrations XVII, 329 p. Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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