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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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