Demobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa

DANIEL ALAYEW Lecturer, Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia IRAE BAPTISTA LUNDIN Social Anthropologist, Higher Institute for International Relations, Maputo, Mozambique EVA-MARIA BRUCHHAUS Development Consultant, Cologne, Germany MARTINHO CHACHIUA Assistant Lecturer at ISRI, Mozambique STEFAN DERCON Research Officer, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University ANTONIO GASPAR Deputy Director and Head of Department of Peace Studies and Security, CEEI, Mozambique GARRY GEHYIGON Co-ordinator of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme in Kenya HABIBA GUEBUZA Assistant Lecturer at ISRI, Mozambique GUILHERME MBILANA Researcher with the UNRISD War-torn Societies Project, Mozambique AMANUEL MEHRETEAB PhD Student, University of Leeds, UK - formerly Director of the Eritrean Department for Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants IRMGARD NA BLER Assistant Professor, Institute for World Economics, Free University of Berlin, Germany

This book analyses, in the light of Africa's large development challenges and continuing wars and insecurity, the question: to what extent and how demobilisations have contributed to peace and human development?In the early and mid-1990s, several African countries demobilised part of their armed forces. This book analyses, in the light of Africa's large development challenges and continuing wars and insecurity, the question: to what extent and how demobilisations have contributed to peace and human development? Where did the soldiers go? What can we learn from the different approaches that have been taken? These questions provide insights in the linkages between development and conflict, and provide lessons for demilitarisation and peace-building efforts in postwar societies.