Soldiers at peace veterans and society after the Civil War in Mozambique

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 -- Explai...

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1. Verfasser: Schafer, Jessica (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Palgrave Macmillan c2007
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Zusammenfassung: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 -- Pre-independence 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN:1403975035
1-4039-7503-5
9781403975034
978-1-4039-7503-4