Latest Documents
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December 26, 2025Second International conference on DRR in Africa, Kinshasa DRC “Combatants on
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.
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December 26, 2025Monitoring and Evaluation of Peace Operations with the Norwegian Institute of In
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
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December 26, 2025Whose Justice? Perceptions of Uganda's Amnesty Act 2000: The Potential for Confl
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.
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December 26, 2025What the Fighters Say. A Survey of Ex-Combatants in Sierra Leone
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
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December 26, 2025African Union Policy on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development
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.
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December 26, 2025The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Conflict Prevention Frame
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.
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December 26, 2025Feasibility Study into the Rehabilitation & Reintegration of Unregistered Ex-Com
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.
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December 26, 2025Multi-country Demobilization and Reintegration Program: End of Program Evaluatio
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.
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December 26, 2025Post Conflict Peace Building in Africa: Assessing DDR Process
Report of a workshop held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in 2006 that brought together participants to
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August 26, 2020Greater Inclusion of African Youth in Public Service and GovernanceThis 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.
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August 21, 2020Continental Framework for Youth, Peace and SecurityIt 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.
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August 21, 202010-Year Implementation Plan For The Continental Framework On Youth, Peace And Se
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December 26, 2025Developing integrated approaches to post-conflict security and recovery. A case
Report detailing attempts to conduct integrated approaches to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and post conflict security programming in Sudan.
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December 26, 2025Stockholm Initiative on Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration
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.
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December 26, 2025Sustaining the Peace in Angola: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmame
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.
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December 26, 2025Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: What Role for the European Union?
Policy brief prepared for the European Union outlining challenges and opportunities associated with reintegration. For more useful documents, Check the Website:
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December 26, 2025A Hard Home coming Lessons Learned from the Reception Center Process in Northern
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.
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December 26, 2025The importance of a gender perspective to successful disarmament, demobilization
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.
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December 26, 2025Peace as a Disappointment. The Reintegration of Female soldiers in post-conflict
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.
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December 26, 2025Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Sierra Leone
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.
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December 26, 2025Where are Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and M
Presents findings from a research study entitled "Girls in Militaries, Paramilitaries, Militias, and Armed Opposition Groups" focused on Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique
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December 26, 2025Reintegration Assistance for Excombatants: Good Practices and lessons for the M
Comprehensive and practical information on lessons learned from the design and implementation of reintegration programmes including models of support for reinsertion, vocational training and programme management. Case studies at Annex C on the Namibian experience of setting up 'development Brigades and institutional structures for DDR in Ethiopia.
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December 26, 2025Beyond Demobilization: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Sector Reform i
Case Study of CAR in 2005 emphasizing the complexities and interrelationship between DDR and SSR efforts.
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December 26, 2025Targeting Multi Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) Assistan
Position paper. Useful exploration of eligibility criteria and approaches for beneficiary targeting.