Book Series

Designed to complement the annual Small Arms Survey and the periodical papers, our book series presents the findings of larger research projects. PDFs are available here.
 
 

'Primed and Purposeful':
Armed Groups and
Human Security Efforts
in the Philippines

'The Politics of Destroying
Surplus Small Arms':
Inconspicuous Disarmament

'Insecurity Is Also a War':
An Assessment of Armed
Violence in Burundi

Security and Post-Conflict
Reconstruction:
Dealing with fighters in
the aftermath of war

The Central African Republic
and Small Arms:
A Regional Tinderbox

Ammunition Tracing Kit:
Protocols and procedures
for recording small-calibre
ammunition

Afghanistan, Arms and
Conflict: Armed groups,
disarmament and security
in a post-war society

Conventional Ammunition
in Surplus: A Reference
Guide

No Refuge: The Crisis
of Refugee Militarization
in Africa

Targeting Ammunition:
A Primer

Armed and Aimless:
Armed Groups, Guns,
and Human Security in
the ECOWAS Region

Armés mais désoeuvrés:
Group armés, armes légères
et sécurité humaine dans
la région de la Cedeao

Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction:
Dealing with fighters in the aftermath of war

edited by Robert Muggah, January 2009
published by Routledge

This book provides critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the cold war, such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR), and security sector reform (SSR). Although the international aid and security sectors exhibit an expanding appetite for peace-support operations in the 21st Century, the effectiveness of such interventions are largely untested. This book aims to fill this evidentiary gap and issues a challenge to 'conventional' approaches to security promotion as currently conceived by military and peacekeeping forces, drawing on cutting-edge statistical and qualitative findings from war-torn areas including Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Sudan, Uganda, Colombia, and Haiti.

To order Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War, contact Routledge.