Reintegrating  ex-combatants in the Great Lakes region
Subtitle: lessons learned
By: Nelson Alusala
Contributors: Institute for Security Studies (South Africa)
Series: ISS monograph -- 179; ISS monograph series -- 179.
Publisher: Institute for Security Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781920422448
Subjects: Politics and government; Soldiers; Rehabilitation; Postwar reconstruction; Social integration
Description: Africa's Great Lakes region has known conflict for a considerable period of time, and this has been met with several initiatives aimed at managing the situation in a sustainable way. One such initiative was the Multi-country Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme (MDRP), led by the World Bank, from 2002 to 2009. The initiative, which looked at selected countries in the Great Lakes, focused on the demobilisation and reintegration of former fighters, with the main objective being to improve the livelihoods of affected communities. Despite the challenges that the MDRP encountered, the programme realised a number of successes and brought to the fore numerous lessons learned. It is these lessons that this monograph has sought to document, with the hope of contributing to the better planning of similar programmes in future. The monograph uses case studies of the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo to illustrate how the MDRP was implemented, while Liberia is included as a control case.
Notes: "May 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-111).
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Contextualising Africa's DDR challenges; title: MDRP and the reintegration process in the Republic of Congo; title: Ex-combatant reintegration and community support in the Central Africa Republic; title: Disarmament and reintegration challenges in Liberia; title: Conclusion and lessons learnt.