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      Portuguese Contemporary HistoryOral historyOral History and MemoryHistoria
This paper seeks to understand the nature and determinants of the livelihood outcomes of former insurgents in Aceh, Indonesia. In August 2005, the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding... more
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      IndonesiaLivelihoodsAcehnese historyDisarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
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      Combat VeteransMilitary and PoliticsMilitaryVeterans
La Guerra Civil Española ha constituido, como no podía haber sido de otra manera, uno de los ejes sobre los que se ha estructurado la historia contemporánea de España. Acerca de este acontecimiento histórico se han elaborado una multitud... more
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      War TheoryMilitary VeteransCombat VeteransWar Studies
A retrospective overview of successive DDR processes in Burundi, an impact assessment of program outcomes, and a strategic analysis of institutional partnerships. Commissioned by and submitted to the Disarmament, Demobilization and... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesPeacekeepingGender and PeacebuildingPeace Studies
Economic rehabilitation of ex-combatants, which plays a salient role in transforming ex-combatants into civilians, is a highly context-specific transformative process often taking place in post-conflict peace building. Its... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesRehabilitationSecurityCivil War
[AMAZON LINK BELOW TO BOOK ITSELF -- TOC and book summary in downloadable .pdf] According to the poet Elias Canetti, "All the things one has forgotten / scream for help in dreams." To the ancient Egyptians they were prophecies, and... more
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      Military HistoryPsychologyAbnormal PsychologyClinical Psychology
Colombian President Santos's government and the leftist guerrilla group, the FARC, have led three years of peace negotiations to end the half-century long internal conflict. Not surprisingly, " peace " and its significance have emerged as... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesEthnographyColombiaPolitical Science
Back cover text: Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social... more
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      ScreenwritingCritical TheoryCritical TheoryCritical Theory
Reseña de Leira Castiñeira, Francisco J., La consolidación social del franquismo. La influencia de la guerra en los “soldados de Franco”, Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2013, 166 pp.
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      Spanish Civil WarContemporary History of SpainFranquismoGUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA
Two cities. Two people of color fatally shot by those charged with security and law enforcement. Two communities torn apart across racial lines. One city reacts conventionally with criminal charges and court proceedings. The other... more
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      Criminal LawCriminal JusticeComparative LawTerrorism
У посібнику узагальнено досвід проведення тренінгів із посилення спроможності фахівців соціальної сфери, які надають психосоціальну підтримку ветеранам АТО та членам їхніх родин, а також з покращення реінтеграції колишніх військових у... more
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      Community PsychologyDisaster mental health, social work intervention, psychosocial supportEx CombatantsPsychosocial support
Phronetic organizational research is an approach to the study of management and organizations focusing on ethics and power. It is based on a contemporary interpretation of the Aristotelian concept phronesis, usually as ‘prudence’.... more
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      ScreenwritingCritical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurship
Policy briefing report prepared for the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Section, DPO/OROLSI, United Nations Department of Peace Operations. July 2020.
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesPeacekeepingLiberiaPeace Studies
After more than 50 years of internal conflict, Colombia hosts simultaneous conflict, transition, and postconflict conditions. Within this milieu, the government-sponsored Colombian Agency for Reintegration of Armed Persons and Groups... more
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      Social PsychologyLatin American StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesEthnography
Até então a participação de combatentes brasileiros judeus durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial fora pouco conhecida. Mesmo os que se tornaram heróis, agraciados com medalhas como a Silver Star do Exército Americano e a Cruz de Combate de 1a.... more
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      BrasilFEBMILITARY HISTORY WW2Ex Combatants
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      Ukrainian PoliticsArmed ConflictArmed ForcesUkraine
Aunque el debate sobre la Revolución Militar, definida tiempo atrás por Geoffrey Parker, ha llenado cientos de páginas, no es el caso de las operaciones anfibias de las que, algunos autores, piensan que parecen sumidas en un verdadero... more
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      HistoryMilitary HistoryModern HistoryCultural History
Estimados/as amigos/as, tenemos el placer de presentaros el último número de la revista que cuenta con un excelente dossier coordinado por Ángel Alcalde (EUI), titulado "Asociacionismo militar y política" y en el que participan... more
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      HistoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesMilitary Veterans
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      Comparative LawEthicsLegal ProfessionSocial Justice
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and... more
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      African StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesMozambiqueSierra Leone
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      Middle East StudiesNarrativeHistory and MemoryOral history
Renamo’s recent upsurge against the Mozambican Frelimo-led government after 22 years of relative stability has challenged the country’s often celebrated disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process (1992–1994). Drawing on... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesViolenceMozambiqueNon State Armed Actors
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      Comparative LawAfricaTransitional JusticeRestorative Justice
This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the... more
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      Comparative LawLegal ProfessionHuman RightsCambodia
Demobilized combatants are generally portrayed as threat to security in post-conflict countries. In this article, I assess how much ex-combatants actually contribute to violence in the case of demobilized paramilitaries and guerrilla... more
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      PsychologyLatin American StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesViolence
An Essay describing a theory of Moral Injury and PTSD which manifests in behavioral and cognitive effects after experiencing combat. Moreover, I describe the differences between these conditions, and argue that changing a philosophical... more
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      MetaphysicsPosttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Combat VeteransStoicism
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      GenderGuatemala (History)Ex Combatants
El propósito de este documento es analizar el proceso de reintegración de combatientes, tal como está estructurado por el Estado colombiano, teniendo en cuenta que, indistintamente del resultado en términos de las iniciativas de paz con... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesColombiaArmed ConflictPeacebuilding
Political engagement for ex-combatants is essential for their reintegration (reincorporation) process, especially if they were in a politically-motivated armed group. This dissertation studies the political reincorporation process (part... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesArmed ConflictPeace StudiesPeace Research
This article argues that transitional justice processes should strive to incorporate development considerations in their scope as a means of ensuring that distributive justice is achieved. Distributive injustices - social, political,... more
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      African StudiesComparative LawDevelopment StudiesPeace and Conflict Studies
Nepal’s peace process can lay some claim to success by existing standards because the Maoist armed conflict has come to a closure after the completion of integration of ex-combatants. But it still has flaws in its warp and woof that are... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesPost-conflict Reconstruction and DevelopmentPeacekeepingNepal
The aim of this article is to analyze the society's experiences of hunger in Postwar Spain and, in particular, to demonstrate that it constituted a common experience for the entire population, including some of the Franco's regime... more
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      Famine StudiesBlack MarketsHungerFrancoism
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesConflict ResolutionPeace and Conflict ResolutionConflict in Aceh
The term ‘phronetic social science’ was coined in Making Social Science Matter (Flyvbjerg 2001). However, as pointed out in that volume and by Schram (2006), phronetic social science existed well before this particular articulation of the... more
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      Comparative LawForensic AnthropologyLegal ProfessionTransitional Justice
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      Comparative LawLegal ProfessionInternational LawTransitional Justice
Ex-combatant reintegration programmes are buttressed by a number of problematic assumptions about ex-combatants themselves; namely, that ex-combatants should not receive long-term support because such assistance would amplify the threat... more
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      African StudiesStigmaStigmatizationLiberia
This article takes into consideration the presence of transnational mercenaries in the conflicts around the world and the national security implications of their returning to home countries. Many European states are nowadays worried... more
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      TerrorismEuropean UnionConflictsMercenaries
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      AmazoniaSEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIALEx Combatants
There is ferment in the social sciences. After years of sustained effort to build a science of society modelled on the natural sciences, that project, long treated with suspicion by some, is now openly being rethought. A critical... more
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      ScreenwritingCritical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurship
La intención de este texto es evidenciar un despliegue teórico sobre la construcción identitaria de dos actores del conflicto armado colombiano, con miras a establecer y proponer intervenciones psico-educativas-sociales prácticas para que... more
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      Social IdentityFamilyArmed ConflictFeelings
Violent conflicts have to do with political divisions, insecurity and uncertainty. It is a social context that warrants mistrust first. Misjudgements of security situations and misplaced trust can have fatal outcomes. The judgment of whom... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesTrustPolitical Violence and TerrorismCivil-military relations
The rise of land deals poses unpredictable risks to war-torn societies, exposing them to the violent folds of the global economy. In Sierra Leone, commercial land leases have perpetuated the chieftaincy monopoly, further curtailed social... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesSierra LeoneLiberal PeacebuildingPolitical Mobilization
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      HistoryIntelligencePolish HistoryCold War
This article aims to contribute to the debate about the recent remobilisation of Resistência Nacional Moçambicano (Renamo), by presenting an analysis of its low- and mid-ranked veterans' post-war relationships with fellow veterans and... more
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      Political PartiesMozambiqueNon State Armed ActorsRenamo
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      Cultural StudiesPsychologyComparative LawIndigenous Studies
В статье анализируется репрезентация нонкомбатантов в украинской литературе в контексте формирования канона о войне в Донбассе. Исследовательский вопрос посвящен литературным практикам реконструкции опыта переселенцев и оставшихся в зоне... more
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      Russian LiteratureWestern EuropeCombat VeteransHistory Of Emotions
Victimhood has become central to the field of transitional justice, leading to rather simplified ideas about and rigid distinctions between victims and perpetrators. Female ex-combatants tend to be regarded in stereotypical ways, either... more
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      GenderTransitional JusticeColombian ConflictGuatemala
El Apostadero Naval Malvinas, la primera unidad naval creada en el archipiélago el 2 de abril de 1982, operó como un centro logístico durante el Conflicto del Atlántico Sur. Este libro reconstruye la historia del grupo Apostadero Naval... more
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      Exercise PhysiologyCombat VeteransMemoriaExcombatant reintegration