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  • Protocol to the OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism
    April 25, 2025

    To facilitate the timely exchange and sharing of information on terrorist groups and activities at the regional, continental and international levels, including the cooperation of States for suppressing the financing of terrorism

  • Update on the ongoing Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Global Epidemic, Brief #33
    September 01, 2020
  • Second International conference on DRR in Africa, Kinshasa DRC “Combatants on
    April 25, 2025

    Report of the 2007 DDR Conference in Kinshasa. Report attempts to define and describe how and why individuals become COFS and potential options for intervention.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation of Peace Operations with the Norwegian Institute of In
    April 25, 2025

    Report of a workshop organized by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the International Peace Institute (IPI) on the “Monitoring and Evaluation of

  • Whose Justice? Perceptions of Uganda's Amnesty Act 2000: The Potential for Confl
    April 25, 2025

    Report analyses the process of amnesty as characterized in Uganda’s Amnesty Act 2000 primarily from the perspective of those who experienced the process first hand – either as combatants or as community members. Specific focus is on the issue of reintegration of ex-combatants and their acceptance, or non-acceptance, within the communities and the role of locally developed transitional justice mechanisms.

  • What the Fighters Say. A Survey of Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone
    April 25, 2025

    Describes the initial findings of a survey of a representative sample of 1043 combatants from Sierra Leone's civil war, presents information on the demographic profile of the combatant population, their motivations for joining and incentives for staying within the different factions, and their attitudes about the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process

  • African Union Policy on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development
    April 25, 2025

    Copy of this document adopted by member states in July 2006. Article 25 gives specific reference to the need for DDR programmes to support post conflict reconstruction and development efforts.

  • The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Conflict Prevention Frame
    April 25, 2025

    A copy of this comprehensive Framework assented to by member states in 2008. Contains several references to DDR and member states obligations to support DDR programmes and approaches to doing so.

  • Feasibility Study into the Rehabilitation & Reintegration of Unregistered Ex-Com
    April 25, 2025

    This Case Study highlights the situation faced by groups of youth excluded from formal DDR processes and the dynamics that ensued. The paper argues the case for flexible and responsive programming that deals with emerging priorities on the ground in order to under stabilisation efforts.

  • Multi-country Demobilization and Reintegration Program: End of Program Evaluatio
    April 25, 2025

    This comprehensive end of programme evaluation provides a detailed analysis of all components of the MDRP from design to p[reject implementation modalities. Chapter V (page 43) provides a synthesis of lessons learned and detailed summaries of individual projects are provided within the Annex.

  • Post Conflict Peace Building in Africa: Assessing DDR Process
    April 25, 2025

    Report of a workshop held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in 2006 that brought together participants to
    discuss, compare and assess DDR experiences and identify lessons learned.

  • Greater Inclusion of African Youth in Public Service and Governance
    August 26, 2020

    This report is the result of a partnership between the African Leadership Institute’s Project Pakati and the African Union Office of the Youth Envoy, funded by the Ford Foundation. ‘Pakati’ is a Bantu word in languages spoken by the Zulu, Ndebele and Shona peoples of Southern Africa.

  • Africa CDC Rumor Report
    Africa CDC Rumor Report
    August 25, 2020

    Reporting date: August 24, 2020
    Please direct questions on this report to Melody Swen, mswen@novetta.com & Rhys O’Neill, roneill@novetta.com

  • Update on the ongoing Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Global Epidemic, Brief #32
    August 25, 2020
  • 10-Year Implementation Plan Yps 2020-2029
    Continental Framework for Youth, Peace and Security
    August 21, 2020

    It is incontrovertible that the peace and security challenges experienced in Africa from the 1990s put continental and international attention on the key roles played by young men and women in episodes of armed conflict and insecurity.

  • 10-Year Implementation Plan Yps 2020-2029
    10-Year Implementation Plan For The Continental Framework On Youth, Peace And Se
    August 21, 2020
  • Developing integrated approaches to post-conflict security and recovery. A case
    April 25, 2025

    Report detailing attempts to conduct integrated approaches to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and post conflict security programming in Sudan.

  • Stockholm Initiative on Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration
    April 25, 2025

    Final report of the Stockholm Initiative on Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration - a programme initiated with the aim of proposing ways and means that can contribute to the creation of a predictable framework in which DDR processes could be planned and implemented.

  • Sustaining the Peace in Angola: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmame
    April 25, 2025

    Comprehensive overview and analysis of the DDR process in Angola post 2002. Useful analysis of challenges and opportunities in what was a process with a high degree of political ownership by the Government.

  • Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: What Role for the European Union?
    April 25, 2025

    Policy brief prepared for the European Union outlining challenges and opportunities associated with reintegration. For more useful documents, Check the Website:
    http://www.international-alert.org/

  • A Hard Home coming Lessons Learned from the Reception Center Process in Northern
    April 25, 2025

    Report examining assumptions and evidence about the needs and experiences of children and adults returning from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and transiting through Reception Centres established to provide initial support and counselling.

  • The importance of a gender perspective to successful disarmament, demobilization
    April 25, 2025

    Reviews recent DDR processes, drawing both from conversations with DDR field practitioners and planners working within various UN agencies, and from academic accounts of DDR to argue for increased attention to women role and voice in DDR planning and programming. Considers the role of UNSCR 1325 in taking this forward.

  • Peace as a Disappointment. The Reintegration of Female soldiers in post-conflict
    April 25, 2025

    Documentation on the particular challenges faced by female ex-combatants on the continent. Chapter Five highlights key issues and recommendations . Annex A presents a series of individual case examples drawn from Eritrea.

  • Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Sierra Leone
    April 25, 2025

    Comprehensive case study on DDR in Sierra Leone. Emphasized the need for improved consultation and community involvement, better provision for vulnerable groups and the more effective linkages and promotion of micro and small businesses.