This article examines the 40-year history of post-conflict reintegration of the Janatha
Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in Sri Lanka. This case study demonstrates that post-civil war
reintegration can be as complex and important to peace following an outright military
victory as following a formally negotiated settlement. This finding challenges a dominant
assumption in the civil wars literature: that decisive military victories create a simpler and
more enduring peace because they remove the complexities of reintegration. As this
example and others warn, if one examines a war-torn society through a five, ten or 20-
year timeframe, then a military victory can appear a powerful agent of peaceful stability,
negating the reintegration requirements of negotiated settlements. But if one applies a lens
of 40 years or more, then a picture of repetitive violence can emerge that seriously questions
the efficacy of military victory in securing long-term peaceful stability. Instead, as
in cases of negotiated settlement, it is the complex dynamics of reintegration that come
to the fore as a core condition for durable peace.
This article examines the 40-year history of post-conflict reintegration of the Janatha
Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in Sri Lanka. This case study demonstrates that post-civil war
reintegration can be as complex and important to peace following an outright military
victory as following a formally negotiated settlement. This finding challenges a dominant
assumption in the civil wars literature: that decisive military victories create a simpler and
more enduring peace because they remove the complexities of reintegration. As this
example and others warn, if one examines a war-torn society through a five, ten or 20-
year timeframe, then a military victory can appear a powerful agent of peaceful stability,
negating the reintegration requirements of negotiated settlements. But if one applies a lens
of 40 years or more, then a picture of repetitive violence can emerge that seriously questions
the efficacy of military victory in securing long-term peaceful stability. Instead, as
in cases of negotiated settlement, it is the complex dynamics of reintegration that come
to the fore as a core condition for durable peace.
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