Soldiers at peace : veterans and society after the civil war in Mozambique / Jessica Schafer.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 244 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Veterans after Mozambique's civil war
- Veterans of new and old wars
- Studying veterans in comparative perspective
- Methods, sources, and terminology
- Narratives, ethics, and analysis
- Research process
- Terminology
- Centers and peripheries: patterns of war
- Explaining war in Mozambique
- Preindependence historical background
- Postindependence transformations
- Economic, social, and political change
- The war in Mossurize
- The war period in rural Renamo areas
- The war period in Frelimo villages
- War and resocialization
- Violence on the periphery: Renamo combatants, civilians, and war
- Renamo combatants and violence in Mozambique's war
- Ideas and memories of violence in historical context
- Narrations of war
- Recruitment and initiation in Renamo
- Denial and transferral of responsibility
- Political education and mobilization
- Relations with civilians: the re-creation of "home"
- Violence at the center: Frelimo combatants, civilians, and war
- Recruitment and training within Frelimo
- Social promotion and wartime profit
- Political education
- Relations with civilians
- The return to civilian life
- An incomplete rupture: postwar settlement and livelihoods
- Peace and settlement decisions
- Social negotiation and family acceptance
- Postwar livelihoods
- Veterans' politics from above
- Veterans and the state
- External assistance and veteran policies
- Veterans' politics from below
- The Veterans' Association
- Veterans, politics, and the war of words
- Concluding remarks
- Reevaluating veterans in postwar Mozambique
- Veterans, citizens, and the state
- Expectations and entitlements
- Parallels, not pathologies.