Introduction
Veterans after Mozambique's civil war
Veterans of new and old wars
Studying veterans in comparative perspective
Methods, sources, and terminology
Narratives, ethics, and analysis
Research process
Terminology
Centers and peripheries: patterns of war
Explaining war in Mozambique
Pre-independence historical background
Postindependence transformations
Economic, social, and political change
The war in Mossurize
The war period in rural Renamo areas
The war period in Frelimo villages
War and resocialization
Violence on the periphery: Renamo combatants, civilians, and war
Renamo combatants and violence in Mozambique's war
Ideas and memories of violence in historical context
Narrations of war
Recruitment and initiation in Renamo
Denial and transferral of responsibility
Political education and mobilization
Relations with civilians: the re-creation of "home"
Violence at the center: Frelimo combatants, civilians, and war
Recruitment and training within frelimo
Social promotion and wartime profit
Political education
Relations with civilians
The return to civilian life
An incomplete rupture: postwar settlement and livelihoods
Peace and settlement decisions
Social negotiation and family acceptance
Postwar livelihoods
Veterans' politics from above
Veterans and the state
External assistance and veteran policies
Veterans' politics from below
The Veterans' Association
Veterans, politics, and the war of words
Concluding remarks
Reevaluating veterans in postwar Mozambique
Veterans, citizens and the state
Expectations and entitlements
Parallels, not pathologies.
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Soldiers at peace : veterans and society after the civil war in Mozambique by Jessica Schafer. ISBN 9781403975034. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
