Post-War Security Transitions
Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts
- 304 pages
- English
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Post-War Security Transitions
Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- General introduction
- PART I post-war security promotion
- PART II Colombia
- PART III South Africa
- PART IV El Salvador
- PART V Northern Ireland
- PART VI Kosovo
- PART VII Burundi
- PART VIII Southern Sudan
- PART IX Aceh
- PART X Nepal
- PART XI Comparative analysis and lessons learnt
- Index