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- noun chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
demobilization .
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- noun act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops
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Examples
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It is certainly very pleasant to consider that we shall have all these valuable assets in hand; but against them we have to allow, which the Chancellor altogether omitted to do, for the big arrears of expenditure and the huge cost of demobilisation, which is at least likely to absorb the whole of them.
War-Time Financial Problems Hartley Withers 1908
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"This policy has signified greater insecurity for women, because the so-called demobilisation of the paramilitary groups, who continue to control many regions of the country, has particularly affected women and girls," María Eugenia Ramírez of the Bogota-based Latin American Institute for Alternative Rights told IPS.
AWID RSS Feed 2009
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Agathon Rwasa said the demobilisation was a landmark
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Only a united Zimbabwe would ensure the "demobilisation" of such actions against the country.
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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 1994
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This dependency was in other sectors coupled with a kind of demobilisation or role confusion of organs of civil society.
Introduction 1969
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Western diplomats say the disarmament and demobilisation of the brigades – and their integration into the security forces of the new government – is the biggest challenge of the coming months.
Libya bows to calls for investigation into Gaddafi death 2011
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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.
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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.
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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.
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