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The Link Between DDR and SSR in Conflict-Affected Countries

Categories: Africa,Conflict Resolution,Democracy/Peace,East Europe,Homeland Security

http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR238McFate_DDR_SSR_Conflict.pdf

Examines the relationship between the process of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration and the process of security sector reform as mutually reinforcing ways to redirect the state’s monopoly of force toward the rule of law. Draws examples from conflicts in Kosovo and Liberia.   From the United States Institute of Peace.