ABSTRACT
This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance.
The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security transition processes based on five years of participatory research with local experts and representatives of former non-state armed groups. It analyses the successes and limits of peace negotiations, demobilisation, arms management, political or security sector integration, socio-economic reintegration and state reform from the direct point of view of conflict stakeholders who have been central participants in ongoing and past peacebuilding processes.
Challenging common perceptions of ex-combatants as "spoilers" or "passive recipients of aid", the various contributors examine the post-war transitions of these individuals from state challengers to peacebuilding agents. The book concludes on a cross-country comparative analysis of the main research findings and the ways in which they may facilitate a participatory, inclusive and gender-sensitive peacebuilding strategy.
Post-War Security Transitions will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, security governance, war and conflict studies, political violence and IR in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |26 pages
Post-war security promotion
part |19 pages
Colombia
part |24 pages
South Africa
part |16 pages
El Salvador
part |22 pages
Northern Ireland
part |16 pages
Kosovo
chapter |12 pages
Demobilising and integrating a liberation army in the context of state formation
part |21 pages
Burundi
chapter |17 pages
The process of security transition in Burundi
part |15 pages
Southern Sudan
part |29 pages
Aceh
chapter |14 pages
The reintegration of ex-combatants in post-war Aceh
part |22 pages
Nepal
chapter |12 pages
Challenges of combatants' rehabilitation and army integration
part |41 pages
Comparative analysis and lessons learnt