What is it about?
While conventional wisdom holds that reintegrating ex-combatants into society is a post-conflict activity, ISAF's commander, General John Allen, sees removing fighters from the battlefield through reintegration and the resolution of local grievances as a means of ‘decomposing’ the insurgency in Afghanistan. John Alexander argues that the combination of the Afghan-led Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme with ISAF and Afghan military pressure, as well as divisions within the Taliban over peace talks, provides the ingredients for accelerating reintegration in Afghanistan.
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Why is it important?
While conventional wisdom holds that reintegrating ex-combatants into society is a post-conflict activity, ISAF’s commander, General John Allen, sees removing fighters from the battlefield through reintegration and the resolution of local grievances as a means of ‘decomposing’ the insurgency in Afghanistan. John Alexander argues that the combination of the Afghan-led Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme with ISAF and Afghan military pressure, as well as divisions within the Taliban over peace talks, provides the ingredients for accelerating reintegration in Afghanistan.
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Base on my experience as Chief of Staff of the Headquarters International Security Force (ISAF) Force Reintegration Cell (FRIC)
Group Captain John Alexander
University of Oxford
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This page is a summary of: ‘Decomposing’ an Insurgency, The RUSI Journal, August 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2012.716636.
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