Military Integration after Civil Wars: Multiethnic Armies, Identity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

by Florence Gaub

Book Overview

This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.

The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently the impetus for peacemaking in multiethnic societies. Three case studies (Nigeria, Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina) determine that rather than external...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415642027
• ISBN13: 9780415642026
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"