War Veterans in Postwar Situations

Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking the Former Combatants’ Return to Civilian Life

Chapter 2 A “Chechen Syndrome”? Russian Veterans of the Chechen War and the Transposition of War Violence to Society

Chapter 3 The Return of the Conscripts—A Vector for the Construction of a National Security Regime in Turkey?

Chapter 4 Reintegrating Civilian Life after Combat: Between Invisibility and Resistance. The Experience of the Ronderas in Peru

Chapter 5 Paramilitary Demobilization and the Return of Violence in Colombia

Chapter 6 A Veteran’s Challenge: From the Test of War to the American Dream

Chapter 7 The Position of Former Combatants, French Authorities, and Public Opinion Vis-à-Vis German Prisoners of War (1944–1949)

Chapter 8 The “Recycled” Militiaman: An Examination of the Postwar Reconversion of Four Former Members of a Serbian Armed Group

Chapter 9 Museveni’s Best Enemies: Dilemmas and Political Uses of the Reintegration of Former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Commanders in Northern Uganda

Chapter 10 From the Great War to Democracy: Former Combatants and the Sardinian Autonomist Movement

Chapter 11 The Postwar Period in Chechnya: When Spoilers Jeopardize the Emerging Chechen State (1996–1999)

Chapter 12 A “Warrior” Generation? Political Violence and Subjectivation of Young Militamen in Ivory Coast

Chapter 13 Conclusion