Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace

Silencing the Guns

AvChris Alden,Monika Thakur

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Militias have proven to be a consistent and enduring challenge to achieving peace in war zones around the world. Whether armed by embattled governments in defence of their territory or fostered by external actors in the interests of greed or grievance, these groups occupy an uncertain and deeply controversial position in the changing landscape of conflict.Linked variously to atrocities against civilians or international criminal elements, part of what distinguishes them from more traditional combatants is their willingness to engage in violent tactics that defy international norms as well as a proclivity to embrace expediency in alliance-making. As such, their diversity of form, unorthodox nature and sheer numbers make achieving short-term stability and an enduring peace a consistently difficult proposition.Bringing together the lessons learned from four intensively researched case studies - the Democratic Republic of Congo, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan and Sudan - the book argues that the overly rigid 'cookie-cutter' approach to demilitaristation, developed and commonly implemented presently by the international community, is ineffective at meeting the myriad of challenges involving militias. In doing so, the authors propose a radical new framework for demilitarization that questions conventional models and takes into account on-the-ground realities.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-03-10
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781848135260

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Chris Alden is a Reader at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics. He has published extensively on demilitarization in journals such as Security Dialogue, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Conflict, Security and Development.Monika Thakur is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada. She has published on demilitarization in journals such as African Security Review, and Conflict, Security and Development.Matthew Arnold graduated from the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics. He is currently working as a freelance journalist. He has published on demilitarization in journals such as Conflict, Security and Development, Asian Survey, and International Peacekeeping.

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Based on extensive fieldwork, Alden, Thakur and Arnold's analysis of the social basis of militia groups makes a genuine contribution to the growing body of literature questioning conventional DDR models.

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List of abbreviationsList of tablesPreface1. Introducing Militias and Demilitarisation2. Conceptualising Militias: A Framework of Analysis3. The South Sudan Defence Force4. The White Army Militias of South Sudan5. The Mutineers of Timor-Leste6. Militias in the Eastern DRC7. Afghanistan's Long and Ongoing Experience with MilitiasConclusion: Militias and the Search for Local SecurityBibliographyNotes