Democratic Transition, Military Managment Reform, Are They always Acceptable?

 

Benhamadi Abdelakader

Dr., University of Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Oran 2, Algeria, Email: benhamadiaek31@gmail.com

 

Abstract

For a long time, the constitutional organization of the army was a taboo subject of which we had no right to approach it. This reality was accepted by all, police and researchers refrained from reflecting on the subject, the field of armies was therefore an opaque area managed by our governments, almost in secret and far from the eyes of the investigators.

The military institution has always contributed to this opacity by imposing the law of silence to safeguard its interests and the privileges of its leaders, sometimes to protect the regime and help keep it in place.

All the protests that Algeria experienced with even the last movement of Hirak had to change this situation. The evolution towards democracy would force the public power and even the army to lift all opacity by imposing the law of silence, sometimes to safeguard its interests and the privileges of its leaders and ultimately protect the regime and contribute to keep it in place.

Secret management must leave room for democratic and transparent management. This management must also be subjected to a control, by the arm that should exert the forces of society is it always true to accept this integration which that of knowing how far our armies are able to transform themselves in a windy general democracy?

This is a cost-effective challenge for all civilian and military actors, as it is a fundamental requirement for democratization. What are the principles that must govern the democratic management of the military and paramilitary forces can one control democratically in strength?

Although a military disengagement process referred to as Transition to Civil Rule was recently completed to what extent has the project of demilitarization been accomplished? Is military disengagement from politics synonymous with demilitarization? What is the linkage between demilitarization and democratization? How can be a democratic re-orientation of the state and civil society engineered in a country?

Keywords: Democratic Transition, Military Management Reform