DDR resources - Global/regional/country studies
(See also under World Bank for MDRP/country programmes AND gender AND child soldiers)
Global
Escola de Cultura de Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona - Links to existing DDR country programmes
Escola de Cultura de Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona - Analysis of DDR Programmes Existing in the World During 2005 (383kb)
Kingma, Kees, Demobilisation & Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Post-war and Transition Countries, GTZ, 2001 (297kb)
Africa
UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration and Stability in Africa, Conference Report, Freetown, 21-23 June 2005 (181kb)
UN OSAA, Overview of African Development 2005, Conflict in Africa and the Role of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in Post-Conflict Reconstruction, December 2005 (132kb)
Interaction - Summary report of efforts of member agencies in West Africa
Alkusala, Nelson & Thokozani Thusi, A Step Towards Peace: Disarmament in Africa, Institute for Security Studies, Monograph No. 98, February 2004.
Colletta, Nat J. & Markus Kostner & Ingo Wiederhofer, Case Studies in War-to-Peace Transition: the Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Ethiopia, Namibia and Uganda, Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1996 (20mb)
Dzineza, Gwinyayi Albert, Swords into ploughshares, Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, ISS Paper 120, January 2006 (250kb)
Isima, Jeffrey, Cash Payments in Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programmes in Africa, Journal of Security Sector Management, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2004 (44kb)
Meek, Sarah & Mark Malan, Identifying Lessons from DDR Experiences in Africa: Workshop Report, Institute for Security Studies, Monograph No. 106, October 2004
Records, Richard, Ex-Combatant Reintegration in Southern Africa - Key Resources (bibliography with some links), Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Angola
Gomes, João and Imogen Parsons, Sustaining the Peace in Angola: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration, Institute for Security Studies, Monograph No. 83, April 2003
Hitchcock, Nicky, Disarmament Demobilisation & Reintegration: the Case of Angola, in Peacekeeping, Issue 1, 2004, ACCORD (186kb)
Human Rights Watch, Struggling Through Peace: Return and Resettlement in Angola, Vol. 15, No. 16 (A), August 2003 (797kb)
Parsons, Imogen, "Beyond the Silencing of Guns: Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration", in Accord Issue 15 on the Angolan Peace Process, Conciliation Resources (40kb)
Great Lakes
Alusala, Nelson, Disarmament and Reconciliation: Rwanda's Concerns, ISS Paper 108, June 2005 (273kb)
Alusala, Nelson, Disarmament and the Transition in Burundi: How Soon? ISS Paper 97, January 2005 (595kb)
Frey, Waldemar, Burundi 's DDR and the Consolidation of the Peace (53kb)
Yu, Lisa, Separating ex-combatants and refugees in Zongo, DRC: peacekeepers and UNHCR's "ladder of options", New Issues in Refugee Research, Working Paper 60, Queens University, Belfast, August 2002 (304kb)
Mozambique
Faltas, Sami & Wolf-Christian Paes, Exchanging Guns for Tools, The TAE Approach to Practical Disarmament- an assessment of the TAE Project in Mozambique, BICC Brief 29, 2004 (965kb)
Struggles in peacetime working with ex-combatants in Mozambique: their work, their frustrations and successes, Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa, 2006 (1mb)
Sierra Leone
Bright, Dennis, Implementing the Lome Peace Agreement, in Paying the Price:The Sierra Leone Peace Process, Accord Issue 9, Conciliation Resources, September 2000 (54kb)
Ginifer, Jeremy, Armed Violence and Poverty in Sierra Leone, A case study for the AVPI, CICS, March 2005 (398kb)
Sperl, Stefan & Machtelt de Vriese, From emergency evacuation to community empowerment: Review of the repatriation and reintegration programme in Sierra Leone, February 2005 (445kb)
World Bank, Sierra Leone: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Findings Good Practice Infobrief, Africa Region, No. 81, 2002 (19kb)
Somalia
UNDP, Policy Framework for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Puntland State of Somalia, 2005 (71kb)
South Africa
Mashike, Lephophptho, Standing Down or out? Demobilising and reintegrating former soldiers, African Security Review, Vol. 9, No. 5/6, 2000 (56kb)
Uganda
Byamukama, Nathan M, A Critical Analysis of the Demobilization Programme in Uganda (143kb)
Zimbabwe
Mazarire, Gerald, Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right: A Critical Assessment of Zimbabwe's Demobilization and Reintegration Programmes, 1980-2000, Centre for Defense Studies, University of Zimbabwe, 2000 (64kb)
Americas
Koth, Markus, To End a War: Demobilization and Reintegration of Paramilitaries in Colombia, BICC Paper 43, 2005 (262kb)
Spencer, Denise, Demobilization and Reintegration in Central America, BICC Paper 8, 1997 (206kb)
Asia
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Post-Conflict Reform (USAID-sponsored)
Chrobok, Vera, Demobilizing and Reintegrating Afghanistan's Young Soldiers: A Review and Assessment of Programme Planning and Implementation, BICC Paper 42, 2005 (407kb)
Japan Afghan NGO Network website
Japan Afghan NGO Network - Dennys, Christian, Disarmament, Demobilization and Rearmament: the Effects of Disarmament in Afghanistan (183kb)
International Crisis Group, Afghanistan, Getting Disarmament Back on Track, Asia Briefing 35, February 2005 (3mb)
Europe
Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas, Becoming an Ex-Military Man, Demobilization and Reintegration of Military Professionals in Eastern Europe, BICC Brief 26, 2002 (906kb)
Balkans
Boothby, Derek,The UNTAES Experience: Weapons Buy-back in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (Croatia), BICC Brief 12, October 1998 (1mb)
Alexander, Jessica et al., From Barracks to Business: An Evaluation of IOM's Transitional Assistance Program to Former Soldiers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, SIPA Columbia University, 2004 (385kb)
Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas & Tobias Pietz & Turning Soldiers into a Work Force: Demobilization and Reintegration in Post-Dayton Bosnia Herzegovina, BICC Brief 27, 2003 (457kb)
Pietz, Tobias & Marc Remillard, Demobilizing and Retraining for the Future: the Armed Forces in Serbia and Montenegro, BICC Brief 31, 2005 (971kb)
