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Additional authors

1. Licklider, Roy E.

Description

1. xiv, 320 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice, however, very little is known about what works, and what doesn't work, in bringing together former opponents to build a lasting peace. Contributors to this volume assess why some civil wars result in successful military integration while others dissolve into further strife, factionalism, and even renewed civil war. Eleven cases are studied in detail -- Sudan, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Rwanda, the Philippines, South Africa, Mozambique, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi -- while other chapters compare military integration with corporate mergers and discuss some of the hidden costs and risks of merging military forces. New Armies from Old fills a serious gap in our understanding of civil wars, their possible resolution, and how to promote lasting peace, and will be of interest to scholars and students of conflict resolution, international affairs, and peace and security studies. --Provided by publisher.

Alternative title

1. Merging competing militaries after civil wars

Subject

1. Armies > Reorganization > Case studies
2. Civil war > Case studies
3. Postwar reconstruction > Case studies
4. Combined operations (Military science) > Case studies
5. Conflict management > Case studies
6. Armies > Africa > Reorganization > Case studies
7. Civil war > Africa > Case studies
8. Conflict management > Africa > Case studies
9. Armées > Réorganisation > Études de cas
10. Guerre civile > Études de cas
11. Reconstruction d'après-guerre > Études de cas
12. Opérations combinées (Science militaire) > Études de cas
13. Gestion des conflits > Études de cas
14. Armées > Afrique > Réorganisation > Études de cas
15. Guerre civile > Afrique > Études de cas
16. Gestion des conflits > Afrique > Études de cas
17. Civil war
18. Combined operations (Military science)
19. Conflict management
20. Postwar reconstruction
21. Africa
22. Civil wars
23. Post-conflict reconstruction
24. Armed forces
25. Integration
26. Försvarsorganisation
27. Väpnade styrkor
28. Inbördeskrig
29. Återuppbyggnad efter krig
30. Konfliktlösning

Genre/Form

1. Case studies.
2. Études de cas.

Contents

1. Foreword / Bruce Russett -- Introduction / Roy Licklider -- Mixed motives? Explaining the decision to integrate militaries at civil war's end / Caroline A. Hartzell -- Early adopters -- Sudan 1972-1983 / Matthew LeRiche -- Military integration from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe / Paul Jackson -- Merging militaries: the Lebanese case / Florence Gaub -- Autonomous development -- From failed power sharing in Rwanda to successful top-down military integration / Stephen Burgess -- From rebels to soldiers: an analysis of the Philippine policy of integrating former Moro National Liberation Front combatants into the armed forces / Rosalie Arcala Hall -- South Africa / Roy Licklider -- International involvement -- Half-brewed: the lukewarm results of creating an integrated military in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Judith Verweijen -- Merging militaries: Mozambique / Andrea Bartoli and Martha Mutisi -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: from three armies to one / Rohan Maxwell -- Bringing the good, the bad and the ugly into the peace fold: the Republic of Sierra Leone's Armed Forces after the Lomé Peace Agreement / Mimmi Søderberg Kovacs -- Military integration in Burundi, 2000-2006 / Cyrus Samii -- Alternative perspectives -- The industrial organization of merged armies / David D. Laitin -- Military dis-integration: canary in the coal mine? / Ronald R. Krebs -- So what? / Roy Licklider.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index.