Re-imagining DDR: Ex-combatants, leadership and moral agency in conflict transformation

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-59

  Mcevoy, Kieran ^a   Shirlow, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; demobilisation; disarmament; ex combatants; leadership; reintegration

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349094319     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480608100172     Document Type: Article

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