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Ex-militia fighters in post-war Lebanon
Dima de Clerck
- 01 Jan 2012
Iss: 24, pp 24-26
TL;DR: This paper reviewed post-war rehabilitation of demobilised Lebanese militia, describing how this has been piecemeal, selective and politicised, and highlighted the dangers of neglecting rehabilitation of ex-fighters.
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Abstract: This article reviews post-war rehabilitation of demobilised Lebanese militia, describing how this has been piecemeal, selective and politicised. Many former fighters remain unemployed and have been left to deal with the psychosocial scars of wartime violence. The fact that a new post-war generation of youth is being recruited through a heroic imagining of the war highlights the dangers of neglecting rehabilitation of ex-fighters.
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The Militiaman Icon: Cinema, Memory, and the Lebanese Civil Wars
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the amnesia thesis holds that the Lebanese people hold a deep desire to forget "the scars and scares of almost two decades of cruel and senseless violence" (Khalaf 2006, 34).
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