The DDR Project
DDR and Human Security: Post-conflict Security-building in the Interests of the Poor is an on-going two-year applied policy research initiative based at the Centre for International Cooperation and Security (CICS), Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford. The Project aims to contribute substantially and innovatively to policy knowledge, and to the design, implementation and evaluation of DDR and related post-conflict stabilisation, peace-building and reconstruction programmes, particularly in relation to human security and the poor. This includes building better linkages between DDR, SSR, SALW and access to justice programming. In addition, it seeks to inform and equip international and local policy and practitioner communities to improve the effectiveness of DDR and associated operations through more strategic and creative interventions aimed at addressing human security priorities and r reflecting the interests of the poor.
The Project builds upon recent review processes undertaken by the Stockholm Initiative on DDR (SIDDR) and the UN Interagency Working Group to develop integrated standards on DDR (IDDRS). The design of human security considerations into DDR and wider programming is an area that has only been partially explored in these processes and further research and analysis is, therefore, timely.
The Project will disseminate scholarly and policy-oriented publications over its duration. These include working papers exploring key issues, themes and linkages, as well as case studies, mini-case studies and desk reviews. The Project engages in a variety of activities aimed at both informing, sharing and reviewing the results of its work with experts, practitioners and key stakeholders.
This DDR Web Site
Project publications can be downloaded directly from this website. Links to key publications on DDR and related programming, Human Security, Peace-building and related areas as well as to institutions, organisations and agencies operating in these fields can be accessed in this website's resources pages. A search function is also available.
Those involved
The Project is led and coordinated by CICS in collaboration with its partners: the Institute for Security Studies (South Africa); Saferworld (UK); the Overseas Development Institute (UK); and the Niall O'Brien Center for Active Non-violence, Reconciliation and Community Futures, University of St. La Salle (Philippines).