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US
/diˌmoʊbəɫaɪˈzeɪʃən, diˌmoʊbəɫəˈzeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops
demobilization of factories
immediate demobilization of the reserves
How To Use demobilization In A Sentence
- Even while the military endgame played out in Abidjan, post-conflict development specialists were presumably drawing up plans for interventions such as disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, security sector reform, and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons. Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern
- Despite the problems, the governments of both Uribe and Santos have called the demobilization program a success. The Seattle Times
- No significant demobilization is planned for 7/31; however plans are in place to demob Type 1 Engines starting on 8/1. Threat Eases as Telegraph Slows To a Crawl
- They return to their former ways, though perhaps in newly clandestine associations such as the murky and much feared paramilitary demobilisation, Medellín - and Colombia - are now presented with a worrying remobilisation. blows: desertions, the cross-border killing of commander Raúl Reyes at his camp in Ecuador and the death of co-founder Manuel Marulanda, and the humiliating rescue of its most high-profile prisoner Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
- Next, only an augmented international security presence in regional centers, plus targeted reconstruction aid that provides incentives for demobilization will bridge the security gap.
- Other social forces and popular movements were co-opted or repressed during the period of military government, leading to their demobilization and fragmentation.
- This dependency was in other sectors coupled with a kind of demobilisation or role confusion of organs of civil society. Umrabulo Series on Building the South African Women's Movement
- Next, only an augmented international security presence in regional centers, plus targeted reconstruction aid that provides incentives for demobilization will bridge the security gap.
- UN peacekeepers would be deployed to patrol a cease-fire and assist in demilitarization and demobilization as well as to help provide a secure environment, so that exiled Tutsi could return. Bystanders to Genocide
- The Afghan New Beginnings Programme, which focused on reintegration and demobilisation from 2003 through 2006, tried an approach much like the one currently being proposed. Louis Belanger: Too early for an Afghan amnesty?
