Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation Tag

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This paper reflects on how the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) and its 'resister' thinking impacted on the African National Congress. It opened up the terrain of the military to contest and helped the movement understand militarisation. Before COSAWR and 'resister,' the issue had been discussed in anti-apartheid circles, but no strategy had emerged, possibly because no-one could gauge whether the white community would be receptive. 

Janine Rauch
01 Feb 1994
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This paper illustrates how women, far from being marginalised from the process of militarisation, can actively contribute towards it. It also illustrates the similarities in the position of women in conventional and guerrilla armies. The South African case shows the durability of patriarchy and the fragility of the gains made for women during periods of war. It sharpens the debate about the relation between equal rights and women's participation in armies.

Jacklyn Cock
24 Apr 1992
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