Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new national army. This book intends to fill the serious gap in our understanding of civil wars, their possible resolution, and how to promote lasting peace.

Foreword by Bruce Russett 1. Introduction Roy Licklider2. Mixed Motives? Explaining the Decision to Integrate Militaries at Civil War's End Caroline HartzellPart I: Early Adopters3. Sudan 1972-1983 Matthew LeRiche4. Military Integration from Rhodesia to ZimbabwePaul Jackson5. Merging Militaries: The Lebanese Case Florence Gaub Part II: Autonomous Development6. From Failed Power Sharing in Rwanda to Successful Top-Down Military Integration Stephen Burgess 7. From Rebels to Soldiers: An Analysis of the Philippine Policy of Integrating Former Moro National Liberation Front Combatants into the Armed Forces Rosalie Arcala Hall8. South Africa Roy Licklider Part III: International Involvement9. Half-Brewed: The Lukewarm Results of Creating an Integrated Military in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Judith Verweijen10. Merging Militaries: Mozambique Andrea Bartoli and Martha Mutisi11. Bosnia-Herzegovina: From Three Armies to One Rohan Maxwell12. Bringing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly into the Peace Fold: The Republic of Sierra Leone's Armed Forces after the Lome Peace AgreementMimmi Soderberg Kovacs13. Military Integration in Burundi, 2000-2006 Cyrus Samii Part IV: Alternative Perspectives14. The Industrial Organization of Merged Armies David Laitin15. Military Dis-Integration: Canary in the Coal Mine? Ronald R. Krebs16. So What? Roy Licklider ReferencesContributorsIndex

It is a truism of scholarship and policy that lasting peace in the wake of civil wars requires the integration of the rival militaries. But until now we have known little about how this can work or even whether the truism is true. Careful, thorough, and thoughtful, these excellent essays take us a big step forward both theoretically and empirically.

It is a truism of scholarship and policy that lasting peace in the wake of civil wars requires the integration of the rival militaries. But until now we have known little about how this can work or even whether the truism is true. Careful, thorough, and thoughtful, these excellent essays take us a big step forward both theoretically and empirically. -- Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University What happens when states emerging from civil war attempt to integrate former enemy combatants into their newly reformed and reconstituted security forces? In this fascinating volume, distinguished scholars, policy analysts, and practitioners explore the politics and causal processes of various power-sharing arrangements across numerous well-researched cases, and evaluate the consequences that particular choices and underlying structural factors have for military effectiveness, democratic civilian control, and the prevention of renewed violence. This important addition to the literature on the aftermath of civil war is a must read for anyone interested in security-sector reform, ethnic conflict, or international intervention. -- Kimberly Marten, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University Licklider and his co-authors shed new light on a question frequently posed by diplomats, military strategists, aid workers and scholars: how to rebuild a functioning army from the embers of civil conflict. This exhaustive collection assembles leading thinkers in the field to consider the prospects for military integration when wars come to an end. It should be essential reading for academics and practitioners involved in stabilization and post-war reconstruction. -- Robert Muggah, Principal, the SecDev Group