How, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, do Maoist rebels
in India quit an ongoing insurgency without getting killed? How do
rebels give up arms and return to the same political processes that
they had once sought to overthrow? The question of weaning rebels
away from extremist groups is highly significant in
counterinsurgency and in the pacification of insurgencies. In
Farewell to Arms, Rumela Sen goes to the rebels themselves and
breaks down the protracted process of rebel retirement into a
multi-staged journey as the rebels see it. She draws on several
rounds of interviews with current and former Maoist rebels as well
as security personnel, administrators, activists, politicians, and
civilians in two conflict zones in North and South India. The
choice to quit an insurgency, she finds, depends on locally
embedded, informal exit networks. The relative weakness of these
networks in North India means that fewer rebels quit than in the
South, where more feel that they can disarm without getting killed.
Sen shows that these networks grow out of the grassroots civic
associations in the gray zone of state-insurgency interface.
Correcting the course for future policy, Sen provides a new
explanation of rebel retirement that will be essential to any
policymaker or scholar working to end protracted insurgencies.
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