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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
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