Military Integration after Civil Wars: Multiethnic Armies, by Florence Gaub

By Florence Gaub

This booklet examines the function of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they could advertise peacebuilding efforts.


The writer demanding situations the idea that multiethnic composition results in weak point of the army, and exhibits how a multiethnic military is usually the impetus for peacemaking in multiethnic societies. 3 case stories (Nigeria, Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina) confirm that instead of exterior elements, it's the inner buildings that make or holiday the army establishment in a socially not easy setting. The booklet reveals that the place the political will is current, the multiethnic army can turn into a logo of reconciliation and coexistence. moreover, it exhibits that the army as a certified id can supersede ethnic issues and hence allows cooperation in the military regardless of a antagonistic post-conflict environment. during this, the ebook demanding situations common theories approximately ethnic identities and places specialist identities on an equivalent footing with them.


The booklet might be of significant curiosity to scholars of army reviews, ethnic clash, clash reports and peacebuilding, and IR in general


Florence Gaub is a Researcher and Lecturer on the NATO Defence university in Rome. She holds a PhD in overseas Politics from Humboldt collage, Berlin.

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