Jaremey R Mcmullin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3046822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaremey R Mcmullin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaremey R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmullin |
| SIGNATURE | MCMULLIN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0444-3146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The challenges and opportunities of researching masculinities during peace processes
This article introduces a special issue in Peacebuilding on researching masculinities during peace processes. It collates insights from feminist peace research, and research on gender and masculinities, to highlight how peace processes are necessarily also processes of gender re-negotiation and transformation. We argue that researching masculinities entails accounting for their plural circulation, complex and contradictory dynamics, and multiple …
Good ones and bad ones
Funding: The work was supported by the Scottish Funding Council [#SFC/AN/12/2017, #SFC/AN/02/2018], the Folke Bernadotte Academy (Sweden’s government agency for peace, security and development) [#20-00280], and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Hustling, cycling, peacebuilding
Ex-combatant youth originated the commercial motorcycling sector in Liberia and have played a dominant role in its development. This article collates key insights narrated by one of Liberia's young ex-combatants-turned-commercial motorcyclists, Edwin Nyankoon, to build narrative accounts of peacebuilding around conceptualisation of youth livelihood, identity, and politics after war. The article contributes to diverse literatures on youth agency b…
What is the benefit of this project?' Representation and participation in research on conflict-affected youth
This article deploys the language, narratives and proposed solutions of research participants to conceptualise peace research as a representational and relational process of recognition. To do so, it draws from a multi-year research project on the economic livelihood and social integration strategies of conflict-affected youth in Liberia’s commercial motorcycling sector. Its starting point is reflexive engagement with participants’ own frequent q…
Decent and indecent exposures
This article analyzes the multiple and contradictory functions of barracks nostalgia for a veterans’ organization in the United States (US), Irreverent Warriors, and for its principal activity, Silkies Hikes. These are day-long events across the US in which military veterans, both men and women, convene to hike in their underwear to prevent veteran suicide. The Hikes are more than exhibitionistic gatherings of nearly naked veterans; they are elab…
Conceptualizing Reintegration Challenges
To introduce my approach to analyzing reintegration challenges in the case studies, I have divided this conceptual chapter into sections that explore the contradictions and disagreements embedded in current approaches to reintegration of ex-combatants, before moving on to a section that looks at each set of reintegration challenges — programmatic, security, political, structural, and ideational — in more detail. These keywords were added by machi…
Namibia
Namibia’s post-war government assumed that the reintegration of combatants from each side would be spontaneous. The UN and Namibia’s other international patrons agreed. As a result, and very unlike the other cases evaluated in this book, no internationally administered reintegration programs were designed or implemented. Also unlike the other cases, reintegration was not included in the mandate for the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG). When…
Sierra Leone
No assessment of ex-combatant reintegration would be complete without a close look at Sierra Leone. Human rights abuses and war crimes perpetrated by combatants on all sides of the conflict have shaped perceptions and assumptions about ‘ex-combatants’ as a social category after war. Fighting twice resumed, putting the entire peace process on hold, and testing the flexibility of reintegration actors to respond to disarmament and demobilization del…
The Advent of the Ex-Combatant
Reintegration challenges tend to be presented as ‘new’, arising from what are said to be the unique destructiveness and barbarity of contemporary civil wars and from the uniquely inhospitable environment for reintegration after demobilization: the ‘lack of opportunities in weak states’. Yet most of the challenges identified in the previous chapter, from debates about community resentment to whether reintegration should be about ‘buying time’ or s…
Conclusion
DDR processes in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia reveal that different types of challenges impede the reintegration of excombatants in post-conflict states. These challenges are often unanticipated and unaddressed within DDR discourse and practice. In fact, DDR programs frequently perpetuate some of the biggest obstacles to successful post-war integration. Dominant approaches to reintegration also maintain separate reintegration re…
Introduction
The reintegration of ex-combatants after war has become big business for several international organizations and agencies. The United Nations has a dedicated disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) section within its Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). 2 The Secretary-General reported in 2011 that there are four current UN peacekeeping missions with significant DDR mandates (two in Sudan, one in the Democratic Republic of th…
Mozambique
In Namibia, the need for reintegration came as somewhat of a surprise. Ex-combatant protests jolted the government away from its assumption that reintegration would be spontaneous. In Mozambique, reintegration was on everyone’s mind. What changed in three years, from 1989 to 1992? In short: Angola. In Angola, UNITA denounced election results in the autumn of 1992 and led its rebel forces back to war against the government. Though not the cause of…
Liberia
The conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as their DDR processes, are often paired together. Liberia borrowed from and inherited reintegration programs in Sierra Leone, and adopted many of the ideas and assumptions that underpinned programs there. But a closer look at the Liberian conflict reveals that similarities in terms of the nature, duration, and outcomes of political violence are few. And although the reintegration programs initia…
Integration or separation? The stigmatisation of ex-combatants after war
Ex-combatant reintegration programmes are buttressed by a number of problematic assumptions about ex-combatants themselves; namely, that ex-combatants should not receive long-term support because such assistance would amplify the threat they pose to security and exacerbate community resentment towards them. The article uses data collected from Liberia to demonstrate that such thinking stigmatises ex-combatants and works against the objective of r…
Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namib
Reintegrating Young Combatants
This article uses recent experience in Angola to demonstrate that young fighters were not adequately or effectively assisted after war ended in 2002. The government's framework excluded children from accessing formal disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes, and its subsequent attempts to target children have largely failed. More critically the case of Angola calls into question the broader effectiveness and appropriateness …
Organised Criminal Groups and Conflict
The relationship between criminality and conflict subverts traditional assumptions about organised crime. Consequently, analysis of the ‘criminal’ must be anchored to specific conflict contexts rather than to a universal typology of organised criminal groups. Organised crime and conflict are interdependent. In several conflict states, organised crime has exacerbated the level of violence and contributed to conflict's intractability. Conflict, mea…
Reintegration of combatants
Efforts to reintegrate combatants following Mozambique's civil war concentrated exclusively on avoiding a return to violent conflict. Though conflict has not resumed, two challenges to long-term security remain: first, involvement among certain combatants in organized criminal activity; second, political instability from the continuing politicization of reintegration issues. Mozambique's reintegration programme, in aiming only to avoid a return t…
Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namib
Integration or separation? The stigmatisation of ex-combatants after war
Ex-combatant reintegration programmes are buttressed by a number of problematic assumptions about ex-combatants themselves; namely, that ex-combatants should not receive long-term support because such assistance would amplify the threat they pose to security and exacerbate community resentment towards them. The article uses data collected from Liberia to demonstrate that such thinking stigmatises ex-combatants and works against the objective of r…
Reintegration of combatants
Efforts to reintegrate combatants following Mozambique's civil war concentrated exclusively on avoiding a return to violent conflict. Though conflict has not resumed, two challenges to long-term security remain: first, involvement among certain combatants in organized criminal activity; second, political instability from the continuing politicization of reintegration issues. Mozambique's reintegration programme, in aiming only to avoid a return t…
Reintegrating Young Combatants
This article uses recent experience in Angola to demonstrate that young fighters were not adequately or effectively assisted after war ended in 2002. The government's framework excluded children from accessing formal disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes, and its subsequent attempts to target children have largely failed. More critically the case of Angola calls into question the broader effectiveness and appropriateness …
Organised Criminal Groups and Conflict
The relationship between criminality and conflict subverts traditional assumptions about organised crime. Consequently, analysis of the ‘criminal’ must be anchored to specific conflict contexts rather than to a universal typology of organised criminal groups. Organised crime and conflict are interdependent. In several conflict states, organised crime has exacerbated the level of violence and contributed to conflict's intractability. Conflict, mea…
Hustling, cycling, peacebuilding
Ex-combatant youth originated the commercial motorcycling sector in Liberia and have played a dominant role in its development. This article collates key insights narrated by one of Liberia's young ex-combatants-turned-commercial motorcyclists, Edwin Nyankoon, to build narrative accounts of peacebuilding around conceptualisation of youth livelihood, identity, and politics after war. The article contributes to diverse literatures on youth agency b…
Decent and indecent exposures
This article analyzes the multiple and contradictory functions of barracks nostalgia for a veterans’ organization in the United States (US), Irreverent Warriors, and for its principal activity, Silkies Hikes. These are day-long events across the US in which military veterans, both men and women, convene to hike in their underwear to prevent veteran suicide. The Hikes are more than exhibitionistic gatherings of nearly naked veterans; they are elab…
Reintegration of combatants
Efforts to reintegrate combatants following Mozambique's civil war concentrated exclusively on avoiding a return to violent conflict. Though conflict has not resumed, two challenges to long-term security remain: first, involvement among certain combatants in organized criminal activity; second, political instability from the continuing politicization of reintegration issues. Mozambique's reintegration programme, in aiming only to avoid a return t…
Organised Criminal Groups and Conflict
The relationship between criminality and conflict subverts traditional assumptions about organised crime. Consequently, analysis of the ‘criminal’ must be anchored to specific conflict contexts rather than to a universal typology of organised criminal groups. Organised crime and conflict are interdependent. In several conflict states, organised crime has exacerbated the level of violence and contributed to conflict's intractability. Conflict, mea…
Reintegrating Young Combatants
This article uses recent experience in Angola to demonstrate that young fighters were not adequately or effectively assisted after war ended in 2002. The government's framework excluded children from accessing formal disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes, and its subsequent attempts to target children have largely failed. More critically the case of Angola calls into question the broader effectiveness and appropriateness …
Conceptualizing Reintegration Challenges
To introduce my approach to analyzing reintegration challenges in the case studies, I have divided this conceptual chapter into sections that explore the contradictions and disagreements embedded in current approaches to reintegration of ex-combatants, before moving on to a section that looks at each set of reintegration challenges — programmatic, security, political, structural, and ideational — in more detail. These keywords were added by machi…
Namibia
Namibia’s post-war government assumed that the reintegration of combatants from each side would be spontaneous. The UN and Namibia’s other international patrons agreed. As a result, and very unlike the other cases evaluated in this book, no internationally administered reintegration programs were designed or implemented. Also unlike the other cases, reintegration was not included in the mandate for the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG). When…
Sierra Leone
No assessment of ex-combatant reintegration would be complete without a close look at Sierra Leone. Human rights abuses and war crimes perpetrated by combatants on all sides of the conflict have shaped perceptions and assumptions about ‘ex-combatants’ as a social category after war. Fighting twice resumed, putting the entire peace process on hold, and testing the flexibility of reintegration actors to respond to disarmament and demobilization del…
The Advent of the Ex-Combatant
Reintegration challenges tend to be presented as ‘new’, arising from what are said to be the unique destructiveness and barbarity of contemporary civil wars and from the uniquely inhospitable environment for reintegration after demobilization: the ‘lack of opportunities in weak states’. Yet most of the challenges identified in the previous chapter, from debates about community resentment to whether reintegration should be about ‘buying time’ or s…
Conclusion
DDR processes in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Liberia reveal that different types of challenges impede the reintegration of excombatants in post-conflict states. These challenges are often unanticipated and unaddressed within DDR discourse and practice. In fact, DDR programs frequently perpetuate some of the biggest obstacles to successful post-war integration. Dominant approaches to reintegration also maintain separate reintegration re…
Introduction
The reintegration of ex-combatants after war has become big business for several international organizations and agencies. The United Nations has a dedicated disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) section within its Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). 2 The Secretary-General reported in 2011 that there are four current UN peacekeeping missions with significant DDR mandates (two in Sudan, one in the Democratic Republic of th…
Mozambique
In Namibia, the need for reintegration came as somewhat of a surprise. Ex-combatant protests jolted the government away from its assumption that reintegration would be spontaneous. In Mozambique, reintegration was on everyone’s mind. What changed in three years, from 1989 to 1992? In short: Angola. In Angola, UNITA denounced election results in the autumn of 1992 and led its rebel forces back to war against the government. Though not the cause of…
Liberia
The conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as their DDR processes, are often paired together. Liberia borrowed from and inherited reintegration programs in Sierra Leone, and adopted many of the ideas and assumptions that underpinned programs there. But a closer look at the Liberian conflict reveals that similarities in terms of the nature, duration, and outcomes of political violence are few. And although the reintegration programs initia…
Integration or separation? The stigmatisation of ex-combatants after war
Ex-combatant reintegration programmes are buttressed by a number of problematic assumptions about ex-combatants themselves; namely, that ex-combatants should not receive long-term support because such assistance would amplify the threat they pose to security and exacerbate community resentment towards them. The article uses data collected from Liberia to demonstrate that such thinking stigmatises ex-combatants and works against the objective of r…
Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State
This book provides a critical analysis of the reintegration challenges facing ex-combatants. Based on extensive field research, it includes detailed case studies of ex-combatant reintegration in Namib
Decent and indecent exposures
This article analyzes the multiple and contradictory functions of barracks nostalgia for a veterans’ organization in the United States (US), Irreverent Warriors, and for its principal activity, Silkies Hikes. These are day-long events across the US in which military veterans, both men and women, convene to hike in their underwear to prevent veteran suicide. The Hikes are more than exhibitionistic gatherings of nearly naked veterans; they are elab…
Hustling, cycling, peacebuilding
Ex-combatant youth originated the commercial motorcycling sector in Liberia and have played a dominant role in its development. This article collates key insights narrated by one of Liberia's young ex-combatants-turned-commercial motorcyclists, Edwin Nyankoon, to build narrative accounts of peacebuilding around conceptualisation of youth livelihood, identity, and politics after war. The article contributes to diverse literatures on youth agency b…
What is the benefit of this project?' Representation and participation in research on conflict-affected youth
This article deploys the language, narratives and proposed solutions of research participants to conceptualise peace research as a representational and relational process of recognition. To do so, it draws from a multi-year research project on the economic livelihood and social integration strategies of conflict-affected youth in Liberia’s commercial motorcycling sector. Its starting point is reflexive engagement with participants’ own frequent q…
The challenges and opportunities of researching masculinities during peace processes
This article introduces a special issue in Peacebuilding on researching masculinities during peace processes. It collates insights from feminist peace research, and research on gender and masculinities, to highlight how peace processes are necessarily also processes of gender re-negotiation and transformation. We argue that researching masculinities entails accounting for their plural circulation, complex and contradictory dynamics, and multiple …
Good ones and bad ones
Funding: The work was supported by the Scottish Funding Council [#SFC/AN/12/2017, #SFC/AN/02/2018], the Folke Bernadotte Academy (Sweden’s government agency for peace, security and development) [#20-00280], and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (10 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (7 works) · Combatant (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Development economics (5 works)