BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2021//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2021 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Prague X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Prague BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241121T143000 UID:euroseas-2021-when-the-war-was-over-trajectories-of-former-combatants-in-southeast-asia SUMMARY:(P81) When the War Was Over: Trajectories of former combatants in Southeast Asia LOCATION:K12 | 2.15 DESCRIPTION:We invite scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to foc us on political and social trajectories of former combatants after regime c hange, particularly in the wake of wars of decolonization. This panel takes issue with some of the taken-for-granted concepts in the literature on Dem obilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) and that of so-called Secu rity Sector Reform (SSR). The aftermaths of struggles for independence and civil wars have been notoriously neglected in the\nliterature on DDR and SS R. In mainstream literature the idea of ‘reintegration’ or, in popular parl ance, the ‘return to society’ of former combatants and freedom fighters, ei ther from regular armies or militia and insurgents, is too often taken for granted . Through case studies from the ground up, rather than a state or p olicy-oriented research perspectives, this panel aims to challenge notions concerning the state, state-building, and citizenship and to examine what “ reintegration” actually means. In trying to challenge the limits of more po licy-driven analyses, we hope to demonstrate that former combatants had age ncy, organized themselves and were able to eke out a living and, in some ca ses, developed a sense of belonging and community in the absence of officia l DDR-policies and official state-presences. In this sense, we hope to unco ver obscured narratives of trajectories of actual people who are often redu ced to ‘spoilers’, i.e. those who frustrate post-war transitions, or those who seem to be able to cope, i.e. ‘adaptors’. Instead, this panel will focu s on the liminal context of transition,\nbeyond such diametric categories.\ nA panel bringing together these cases would be a valuable contribution to discussions on the impact of war on society more generally, and more specif ically to studies on political violence in post-war situations in former co lonized regions, war veterans and on the literature on DDR and SSR in nonwe stern societies. A book from this particular historical- nthropological per spective has yet to be written URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/when-the-war-was-over-trajectories-of-former-combatants-in-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20210909T170000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR