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How do armed revolts against existing governments end? What compels rebels to lay down their arms and put revolution aside? And what happens then? Drawing on her years-long research amidst Maoist rebels in India, Rumela Sen outlines the successful methods that persuade rebels to move past revolutionary goals and integrate back into society.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2.I nside the Insurgency
- 3. The Gray Zone of State-Insurgency Interface
- 4. Rebel Retirement in the South through Harmonic Exit Networks
- 5. Rebel Retirement in the North through Discordant Exit Networks
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix
About the author
Rumela Sen is currently a Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, where she is also affiliated with the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Summary
How do armed revolts against existing governments end? What compels rebels to lay down their arms and put revolution aside? And what happens then? Drawing on her years-long research amidst Maoist rebels in India, Rumela Sen outlines the successful methods that persuade rebels to move past revolutionary goals and integrate back into society.
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A lot is known about why people rebel, but little is understood about how rebels quit. Under what circumstances do they feel sufficiently confident about their personal safety to be able to retire from armed struggle and return to everyday life? Sen's fine work provides an answer to this question - an important one for policy - based on scrupulous analysis of data drawn from years of field research in areas of North and South India that have had contrasting experiences. The book is an outstanding original contribution to the literature on insurgency.
