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From defence to development : redirecting military resources in South Africa
- Title
- From defence to development : redirecting military resources in South Africa / [edited by] Jacklyn Cock and Penny Mckenzie for the Group for Environmental Monitoring.
- Publication
- Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 1998.
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- Description
- 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- For South Africa's transition to democracy to be successful, there needs to be a process of demilitarisation that involves a shifting of power and resources away from the defence force and the military establishment. Such a process has been under way since the early 1990s, but it has been uneven and fragile, with some contradictory outcomes such as the increasing emphasis on arms exports and the rise of banditry and armed criminal gangs.
- Now there is a need to go beyond a narrow conception of the process and focus instead on the redirection of military resources, both human and material, towards sustainable development and environmental restoration.
- As this book shows, such a focus would require redefining the notion of security to take into account the threats to peace caused by poverty and social dislocation; converting the defence industry to civilian production; reallocating defence expenditure; redeploying troops and retraining ex-combatants in development; projects and for environmental protection; and redistributing land previously used as military bases.
- For this to happen, there must be extensive public debate on defence and security issues and greater access to information and alternative perspectives. It is in this context that From Defence to Development seeks to make a real and lively contribution.
- Alternative Title
- Redirecting military resources in South Africa
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 235-243.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Thenjiwe Mtintso -- 1. Introduction / Jacklyn Cock -- 2. Guns or Butter? Growth, development and security / Gavin Cawthra -- 3. The 1996 Defence White Paper: An agenda for state demilitarisation? / Laurie Nathan -- 4. Reclaiming the land: A case study of Riemvasmaak / Penny Mckenzie -- 5. Weapons testing: Its impact on people and the environment / Penny Mckenzie -- 6. South Africa's arms industry: Prospects for conversion / Peter Batchelor -- 7. Light weapons proliferation: The link between security and development / Jacklyn Cock -- 8. Still killing: Land-mines in southern Africa / Alex Vines -- 9. Apartheid's nuclear arsenal: Deviation from development / David Fig -- 10. After the war: Demobilisation in South Africa / Tsepe Motumi and Penny Mckenzie -- 11. Demobilisation and reintegration in society: Human resources conversion / Rocky Williams -- 12. Militarised youth: Political pawns or social agents? / Monique Marks and Penny Mckenzie.
- ISBN
- 0889368538
- LCCN
- cn 98980043
- OCLC
- ocm38758145
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries