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Disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR)
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Practical Guide: To fulfil the reintegration needs and rights of girls formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups in South Sudan
Recent years have seen significant progress to end the phenomenon of children associated with armed actors in South Sudan, over 28,000 children have been released from armed groups since 1998. However, most of these children have been boys, and many girls
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Cradled by Conflict: Child involvement with armed groups in contemporary conflict
Today, there is concern that the nature of contemporary conflict, and the non-state armed groups fighting them, pose seemingly new policy and programmatic challenges to prevent child recruitment by, and facilitate disengagement of children from, these gro
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Reintegrating Girls and Boys Formerly Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups: A case study from Central African Republic (CAR)
This case study describes Plan International’s community-based reintegration programmes for girls and boys released from armed groups in Central African Replublic (CAR). The outbreak of violent conflict in CAR in December 2013 led to mass displacement, le
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Children and Extreme Violence: Insights from social science on child trajectories into and out of non-state armed groups
The United Nations University (UNU), in concert with UNICEF, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), and the governments of Luxembourg and Switzerland, is leading a research initiative examining child trajectories into and out of non-state armed
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What the Girls Say: Improving practices to reintegrate girls in DRC
Girls associated with armed groups suffer extreme hardship within the ranks, as well as when they leave the armed group and return to their communities. Furthermore, Release, Recover, and Reintegration programmes are are few and often underfunded. Hence,
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Practical Guide: To foster community acceptance of girls associated with armed groups in DR Congo
This guide is the outcome of a Child Soldiers International workshop in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, that discussed the findings of What the Girls Say and the challenges girls formerly associated with armed groups face in DR Congo. In the wor
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UN DDR in an Era of Violent Extremism: Is it fit for purpose?
The United Nations University (UNU) is a global think tank established by the United Nations General Assembly with the purpose of contributing, with research and education, to efforts to resolve global problems of human survival, development. This collect
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Disengaging Children in Violent Extremist Contexts
Thoughtful, child-sensitive, and principled approaches to disengaging children associated with violent extremist groups are important for improving both human rights and security in conflict-affected countries. This article presents three relatively modes
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A people dispossessed: the plight of civilians in areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo affected by the Lord's Resistance Army
This report analyses the challenge of protecting civilians in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) affected areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and proposes concrete ways to enhance current efforts. It looks at many different conditions, such as e
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Back but not home: supporting the reintegration of former LRA abductees into civilian life in Congo and South Sudan
This report examines the experiences of children and adults who have escaped from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as they try to reintegrate into civilian life in the DRC and South Sudan. It analyses the community dynamics that affect reintegration both
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Safe paths home: protecting civilians and supporting reintegration in LRA affected communities
Conciliation Resources and partners conducted a thorough appraisal and investigation of current approaches to civilian protection and reintegration of former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) members and those who have been LRA victims. Research was conducted
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We Came Back with Empty Hands: Understanding the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of children formerly associated with armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The use of underage combatants was widespread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in both the First Congo War (1996–1997) and the Second Congo War (1998–2003). When the Global and Inclusive Agreement on Transition in the Democratic Republic of t