Soldiers at peace : veterans and society after the civil war in Mozambique /

This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). Based on extensive field-work with former combatants from both sides of the civil war in Mozambique and the communities in which they have settled, this takes a critical and empiri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schafer, Jessica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Since 1975
Veterans > Political activity > Mozambique.
Anciens combattants > Activité politique > Mozambique.
HISTORY > Military > Veterans.
Politics and government
Veterans > Political activity
Settlement assistance.
Reintegration.
Peace efforts.
Mozambique > Politics and government > 1994-
Mozambique > History > Independence and Civil War, 1975-1994 > Veterans > Political activity.
Mozambique > History > 1994-
Mozambique > Politique et gouvernement > 1994-
Mozambique > Histoire > 1975-1994 > Anciens combattants > Activité politique.
Mozambique > Histoire > 1994-
Mozambique
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Veterans after Mozambique's civil war
  • Veterans of new and old wars
  • Studying veterans in comparative perspective
  • Methods, sources, and terminology
  • Narratives, ethics, and analysis
  • Research process
  • Terminology
  • Centers and peripheries: patterns of war
  • Explaining war in Mozambique
  • Preindependence historical background
  • Postindependence transformations
  • Economic, social, and political change
  • The war in Mossurize
  • The war period in rural Renamo areas
  • The war period in Frelimo villages
  • War and resocialization
  • Violence on the periphery: Renamo combatants, civilians, and war
  • Renamo combatants and violence in Mozambique's war
  • Ideas and memories of violence in historical context
  • Narrations of war
  • Recruitment and initiation in Renamo
  • Denial and transferral of responsibility
  • Political education and mobilization
  • Relations with civilians: the re-creation of "home"
  • Violence at the center: Frelimo combatants, civilians, and war
  • Recruitment and training within Frelimo
  • Social promotion and wartime profit
  • Political education
  • Relations with civilians
  • The return to civilian life
  • An incomplete rupture: postwar settlement and livelihoods
  • Peace and settlement decisions
  • Social negotiation and family acceptance
  • Postwar livelihoods
  • Veterans' politics from above
  • Veterans and the state
  • External assistance and veteran policies
  • Veterans' politics from below
  • The Veterans' Association
  • Veterans, politics, and the war of words
  • Concluding remarks
  • Reevaluating veterans in postwar Mozambique
  • Veterans, citizens, and the state
  • Expectations and entitlements
  • Parallels, not pathologies.

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