Reintegration and localized conflict : promoting police-combatant communication

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This note presents the findings of a conflict and development (C&D) program study that evaluates two combatant reintegration programs undertaken in Poso district, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia from 2007-2008. The Poso programs are interesting because they involved the application of conventional reintegration approaches in a novel context of localized, sporadic violence. The study finds that the primary value of reintegration in Poso was its role in assisting authorities to establish relationships with combatants which in turn helped them better manage security. Police increased their levels of contact with combatants through reintegration and other informal economic inducements, and were able to leverage this contact to gather information in the aftermath of security incidents and to detect potential security disturbances. There are two implications for reintegration theory and practice. If reintegration is understood as a means to provide inducements to cooperate with police, then indi

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