Reintegration of Lebanese combatants
A study of patterns for possible reintegration of Hezbollah militias into Lebanese society.Participants
Experiences from reintegrating Christian militia in the 1980s and 90s in Lebanon are to be used in analysing and comparing an eventual reintegration of the Hezbollah militia.
Funding
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Publications
- Karamé, Kari (2009). Reintegration and the relevance of social relations: the case of Lebanon,
in Conflict, Security and Development, Volume 9, Number 4, December 2009
. London,Routledge.p. 495-514. The DDR process that took place in Lebanon after the internal wars (1975-89), based on the Ta'if Accord (1989), was not co-ordinated by any international organisation. This paper assesses the reintegration of a number of combatants of one of the militias, the Lebanese Forces, placing particular emphasis on the context in which it unfolded.
