Legal Background of the Hungarian Military Reconversion

Abstract

Individual, but especially massive discharge from military is never just a military problem and the lack of regulation is extremely unfavourable (eg consumption,  purchasing power, unemployment and crime) to the whole society.  Individualized civilian adaptation and resettlement problems like existential  downturn, losing social status and housing, personal conflicts with relatives,  and require institution-alized and organised human reconversion system.  Soldiers have volunteered for the dangerous duty of preparing for and waging  war from other members of socie-ty can live their lives in a free and safe  environment. They have risked their lives for the security of their country. They  have acquired the knowledge, skills and typical organizational culture that  fundamentally differ from civilians' skills. To pre-vent social conflicts and  acquire civilian skills as well every state needs a broad set of tools of  institutionalized human reconversion and resettlement. Particularly important  is the issue during application of volunteering forces when disarmament befalls  at relatively young age and ex-service personnel and veterans are  usually not expected to be reemployed by their previous employer. The author  outlines the history of massive discharge from military in brief and domestic  regulation of reconversion, defines its concept, and finally summarizes the  necessary pillars of successful human reconversion.