Lesson 8: Social and Economic Reintegration

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Lesson Eight explores the complex process of social and economic reintegration. The sustainable disarmament of combatants and those previously associated with armed forces and groups depends on the availability of social and economic reintegration opportunities. Failure to reintegrate those who have been demobilized undermines the achievements of disarmament and demobilization, placing the DDR programme at risk of increasing instability. Reintegration presents a particularly complex challenge. When the demobilized and those formerly associated with armed forces and groups re-enter society, they are confronted with an unfamiliar situation whereby the communities to which they return have also been significantly transformed by conflict. In some post-conflict countries, the demobilized and those associated with armed forces and groups have no experience or memory of pre-war patterns of life. Thus, reintegration aims to support the demobilized through counseling, education and training, and an increase in the capacities of receiving communities to integrate the demobilized and other returnees.