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Kulisy niedoszłego procesu sądowego Stowarzyszenia Polskich Kombatantów w Wielkiej Brytanii z "Tygodnikiem Polskim" w latach 1948-1949
2013
In 1948 members of the Polish Ex-Combatants Association charged the editor of Tygodnik Polski published by the Polish People’s Republic Embassy in London with slander. Eventually, there was no trial, and the dispute ended in 1949 with an settlement. Instead the embassy in London had to pay a large sum as compensation.
Towards a theory of ex-combatant reintegration
2013
This paper encourages the development of a theoretical framework for the study of the reintegration of ex-combatants after war. It takes the first steps towards this by proposing a new definition of reintegration, where the processes ex-combatants experience, rather than the programmatic support offered by international and national agencies, take centre stage. The article links the study of reintegration to two broader disciplines; political economy and sociology, and in particular to the two disciplines’ account of power and group belonging. It argues that a political economy approach is particularly useful for making sense of the context in which reintegration processes unfold. The artic…