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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.
Springer Nature - Springer Law and Criminology eBooks 2021 English International Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict, 2946-2800
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- Peace.
- Criminology.
- Politics and war.
- International relations.
- Sex.
- Crime and Society.
- Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Criminology in the Global South.
- Military and Defence Studies.
- International Relations.
- Gender Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Crime and Society.
- Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Criminology in the Global South.
- Military and Defence Studies.
- International Relations.
- Gender Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9783030615666
- 3030615669
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