# Demobilization

> Demobilization is mapped as the break: it seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:armed-struggle-revolution:demobilization` |
| Family | Armed Struggle & Revolution |
| Domain | Conflict |
| Kind | strategy |
| Archetypal function | The Break |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Demobilization belongs to the **Armed Struggle & Revolution** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Demobilization seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Demobilization, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Break.** Demobilization is mapped as the break: it seeks to defeat, replace, or render unreproducible an existing order.

## Gift

can rupture entrenched coercive arrangements; through Demobilization, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

normalizes violence, centralizes secrecy, and reproduces domination; Demobilization can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Demobilization to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Break enters through Demobilization. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Demobilization becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**resource.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Demobilization; another player names a countermove. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **enables — Purification Campaign:** Purification Campaign enables Demobilization by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **constrains — Transitional Justice:** Demobilization constrains Transitional Justice by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **translates into — Influencer Politics:** Demobilization translates into Influencer Politics by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **amplifies — Cloture:** Cloture amplifies Demobilization by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Demobilization from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Demobilization is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Demobilization: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Revolution](https://www.britannica.com/topic/revolution-politics) — Encyclopaedia Britannica, ongoing. Comparative conceptual background; supplement with case-specific scholarship.
- [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court](https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf) — International Criminal Court, 1998. International criminal jurisdiction and definitions.

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