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Title: | Demilitarisation, Disarmament and Development in Southern Africa |
Author: | Willett, Susan |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 77 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 409-430 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa Angola |
Subjects: | disarmament demobilization Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government Development and Technology |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249808704323 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=403183B0FA145A1171BB |
Abstract: | Following the signing of a peace agreement between adversaries, a major preoccupation of peace building operations has been with the disarmament and demilitarization of a situation in order to avoid a potential return to conflict. In the southern African region these early stages of peace building in the beginning of the 1990s have been fraught with problems, partly because the peace builders have prioritized programmes that have focused on the symptoms of violence, notably militarism, rather than the underlying structural causes. Unless the deeper systemic problems that confront the region are dealt with, peace builders will find that attempts at disarmament, demobilization and demilitarization are only likely to secure temporary or limited success in the long-term pursuit of peace and stability. Much greater effort, therefore, needs to be made to link disarmament and demilitarization programmes in southern Africa to the broader goals of postwar economic reconstruction and sustainable development. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |