Inventing the veteran, imagining the state: post-conflict reintegration and state consolidation in Timor-Leste, 1999-2002

Thesis

Conventional post-conflict state-building models approach disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programmes as a means for state actors to delegitimise non-state sources of power and centralise control over coercive power with the state. The programmes carry the promise of new lives for conflict actors and a new, modern and technocratic approach to the exercise of force; they are thus central to post-conflict transformation. However, this thesis calls into question the natura...

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Authors: Roll, K; Kate Roll

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Timor-Leste; veterans; Post-conflict transitions; pensions; reintegration
• Subjects: Pensions; Return and reintegration; Public policy; National identity; Conflict