IISS Adelphi Papers #303 'Disarmament and Demobilisation After Civil Wars' (1996)
 
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What does a country do with its armed forces after conflict? What are the key issues that need to be addressed to ensure the sustainability of disarmament programmes? How can donors make their assistance more effective? Demilitarisation and disarmament is often part of a wider challenge involving the reconstruction of states that in certain crucial respects can be said to have ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’.
 
This Adelphi Paper provides a framework for thinking about the proper place of disarmament, demobilisation and the reintegration of former combatants in settling internal armed conflicts. It concludes that the disarmament process is an extremely political one. The long-term sustainability of such endeavours depends on the parallel efforts of political and economic reconstruction to resolve, or lessen the impact of the root causes of conflict. 
 
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