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Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are an important community-based resource for veterans as they readjust to civilian life. Through interviews with both national-level and smaller, local FBOs, the authors sought to understand better the current and potential roles for FBOs in veteran reintegration. Interviewees suggested that veterans may look to FBOs for support because they offer privacy and confidentiality, two features that may be especially critical when a potential stigma is involved. Some FBOs have also developed a reputation as safe places for veterans, providing supportive, judgment-free environments. FBOs not only help veterans with spiritual matters but address diverse areas of veteran health and wellness, including vocation, education, financial and legal stability, shelter, access to goods and services, mental health, access to health care, physical health, family, and social networks. In some cases, the support is offered to veterans directly; in other instances, the support is indirect, via training individuals to help veterans or educating the public about them. In the process of providing support, FBOs interact with varied organizations, including government entities, private nonprofits, and one another, for training, outreach, referrals, information exchange, obtaining donations, and collaboration. Yet challenges exist, including insufficient connections with chaplains working in different settings and others in the web of support, resource and capacity constraints, lack of awareness of experience with veterans, issues related to religious philosophy or orientation, and characteristics of veterans themselves. To move forward, the authors offer recommendations for policymakers, organizations that interact with FBOs, and FBOs themselves to help FBOs engage fully in the web of reintegration support.

Veteran reintegration --- Veterans --- Religious institutions --- Services for --- Community reintegration, Veteran --- Post-deployment reintegration --- Reintegration, Veteran --- Veteran-community reintegration --- Resocialization --- Reintegration

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"Military Veteran Reintegration: Approach, Management, and Assessment of Military Veterans Transitioning to Civilian Life offers a toolkit for researchers and practitioners on best practices for easing the reintegration of military veterans returning to civilian society. It lays out how transition occurs, identifies factors that promote or impede transition, and operationalizes outcomes associated with transition success. Bringing together experts from around the world to address the most important aspects of military transition, the book looks at what has been shown to work and what has not, while also offering a roadmap for best-results moving forward."--Publisher's website.

Veteran reintegration. --- Community reintegration, Veteran --- Post-deployment reintegration --- Reintegration, Veteran --- Veteran-community reintegration --- Veterans --- Resocialization --- Reintegration --- Armed Forces --- Military discharge. --- Social conditions. --- Demobilization.

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What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they recognized-or not-by their governments and fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain an elevated postwar status? In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to exert political influence.

Veterans --- Veteran reintegration --- Services for --- History --- Government policy. --- Social conditions --- Veterans, war, Veteran studies, Military affairs, Comparative history, Comparative politics.

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Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.

Veteran reintegration --- Child soldiers --- Young men --- Men --- Young adults --- Boys --- Boys as soldiers --- Children as soldiers --- Soldiers --- Community reintegration, Veteran --- Post-deployment reintegration --- Reintegration, Veteran --- Veteran-community reintegration --- Veterans --- Resocialization --- Social conditions --- Reintegration --- Liberia --- Politics and government --- child, children, childhood, childhood studies, Liberia, child soldiers, civil war, war, violence, war culture, gun, guns, bullets, fighting, armed conflict, missile, combat, ground troops, troops, military.

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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Korean War, 1950-1953 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Veteran reintegration --- Veterans --- Combat veterans --- Ex-military personnel --- Ex-service men --- Military veterans --- Returning veterans --- Vets (Veterans) --- War veterans --- Armed Forces --- Retired military personnel --- Community reintegration, Veteran --- Post-deployment reintegration --- Reintegration, Veteran --- Veteran-community reintegration --- Resocialization --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Social conditions --- Reintegration