This talk will consider conversations and experiences with former militia fighters from Lebanon's war between 1975-1990, to argue that fighters do not lose any part of their humanity when they kill and participate in armed warfare. I suggest, rather, that the discourse of humanity and the resort to the notion of dehumanization is a rhetorical device with hegemonic influence in debates and conversations about war and peace. My aim is to provide a critical anthropological approach to peace studies and our understanding of war and its violence.