The Struggle to Satisfy

DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-combatants in Liberia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12536699
AutoresKathleen M Jennings (autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen14
Número2
Páginas204-218
Fecha de publicación2007-03-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Peacekeeping (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1353-3312 • E-ISSN: 1743-906X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13533310601150800
OpenAlexW2054012704
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas47

This article calls for a re-examination of the justification, formulation and implementation of DDR programming in certain post-conflict environments. Qualitative fieldwork among ex-combatants in Monrovia, Liberia, suggests that the extent and form of DDR programming must be more sensitive to and predicated on context, accounting for conflict histories and current socioeconomic conditions and local institutional capacity. Moreover, in some post-conflict societies, a better use of international community resources may be to delink disarmament and demobilization from reintegration, focusing reintegration resources instead on open-access jobs programmes with discrete, complementary bilateral or multilateral programmes for particularly vulnerable groups

Context (archaeology · Demobilization · Development economics · Disarmament · Economics · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration