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Security and Hybridity after Armed Conflict The Dynamics of Security Provision in Post-Civil War States

By Rens C. Willems Copyright 2015
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the dynamics of security provision in international interventions in post-conflict states. It focuses on how international security interventions – such as Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes, Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Armed Violence Reduction (AVR) – play out in the post-civil war context in which they are implemented. The underlying... Read more

Introduction: A Chivalric Quest  1. Books of Chivalry: Assumptions and Approaches to Interventions  2. A Disenchanting Reality: Chaos and Order  3. Policy Implementation, Politics and Ownership  4. The Dynamics of Security Interventions in Local Contexts  5. Security Interventions and the State  6. Security Interventions on the Ground: Reintegration  7. Dynamics of Security on the Ground  8. Conclusions

Biography

Rens C. Willems is a Research Fellow at the University for Peace, The Hague, and has a PhD from Utrecht University.