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problems and methods - final

Tags: problems and methods

Outline

Starting point: The Community as a system wrt Iraqi Militias

Draft: master’s thesis

Concept

  • Communities are often held as the crucial center for deradicalization and reintegration programs. For the context of Iraqi Militias/Hashd al-Shaabi/PMF, what does this look like? How can communities foster peacebuilding within this context?

Baselines

Bring it together

  • Start by talking about how communities, not ideas are the center point for successful reintegrating of former fighters (nepal, namibia)
  • Talk about the current state of the PMF and how they are semi-state
    • Talk about the religious/sectarian aspects of the PMF
  • Talk about how communities impact reintegration programs
  • Answer how peacebuilding works now, and why it doesn’t work, and where it’s worked before
  • Dive into deeper comparative cases

Outline

  • Clauswitz On War
  • DDR as a requirement for post-conflict statebuilding
  • Conceptualize the iraqi PMF issue as a dual countery insurgency one and a SSR/DDR one
    • PMF’s seen in sectarian caraiture
      • much more complicated, mosaic
  • State lead reintegration on Iraq
  • What lessons have we learned from sierra leone, cote d’ivore, etc?
  • State lead -> how does this look in comparison to sudan?
  • What forms a community on a micro level? How do we define a community? Communities under DDR and SSR?
  • Communities -> reintegration transforms between individual and communal based
    • Also faction leaders
    • How do these play in?
  • use Simpson - War from the Ground Up

Introduction

Current Literature

Propose a structure and interpreation

  • move beyond interpreting this as a proxy
  • move beyond interpreting this as a sectarian lens
    • their entry into government unfortunately puts this in deeper sectarian lens, since scholars already tend ot see it in sectarian lens
  • war as politics by other means
  • move into interpreting this as a specific realities
    • what works for peacebuilding?
    • what doesn’t work for peacebuilding?
    • state lead SSR?
  • rethinking them as potential destabilizers, as the often the case of the conflict reform

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