11. The Persistence of Military Identities among Ex-Combatants in South Africa
- Author:
- Maringira Godfrey and Jasmina Brankovic
- Publication Date:
- 04-2013
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
- Abstract:
- This report focuses on the ways in which ex-combatants have remained militarised at both an individual and a collective level in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that ex-combatants' military identities and skills can be both beneficial and detrimental to their families, communities and the state. For this reason, as long as DDRR programmes remain short-term processes aimed chiefly at disarming ex-combatants without addressing their ongoing needs in highly unequal and violent societies, the demilitarisation of ex-combatants' minds and everyday lives will be an unattainable goal.
- Topic:
- Violence, Reconciliation, and Military
- Political Geography:
- Africa and South Africa