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Ex-combatants' voices : transitioning from war to peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka / edited by John D. Brewer, Azrini Wahidin.

9783030615666 (electronic book)
3030615669 (electronic book)
9783030615659
3030615650

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (xx, 348 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-61566-6 doi

UB359.G7 E93 2021

362.86
362.115

This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants subsequent engagement or not in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.

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