A Comparative Study of Ex-Combatant Reintegration in the African Great Lakes Region : Trajectories, Processes, and Paradoxes
This study explores the reintegration processes that ex-combatants, as well as the communities that receive them, go through in the transition from being soldiers to being civilians across the Great Lakes region (GLR) of Africa (Uganda, Rwanda, DRC...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/07/20367945/comparative-study-ex-combatant-reintegration-african-great-lakes-region-trajectories-processes-paradoxes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20748 |
| Summary: | This study explores the reintegration
processes that ex-combatants, as well as the communities
that receive them, go through in the transition from being
soldiers to being civilians across the Great Lakes region
(GLR) of Africa (Uganda, Rwanda, DRC, RoC, and Burundi).
This study uses a cross-country comparative approach
capitalizing on survey data col¬lected between 2010 and 2012
from nearly 10,000 ex-combatants and community members
across the GLR. This is the first time that such a large
sample of data on ex-combatants from across multiple
countries has been systematically compared and analyzed,
thus the study represents the cutting edge of empirically
driven quan-titative research on the reintegration processes
of ex-combatants. An important component of the analysis of
ex-com¬batant reintegration processes revolves around their
position relative the broader community. As such, this study
compares the reintegration processes of ex-com¬batants with
those of community members and there¬fore, explores in turn
the ways in which these two types of reintegration processes
interact with each other. Notably, the core structure of the
analysis presented in the detailed data analysis in annexes
one and two is not only about ex-combatants and the
processes through which they reintegrate, but also an
investigation of commu¬nities themselves, i.e. their
willingness and ability to absorb ex-combatants back into
society. This study presents a snapshot of the social and
economic dimensions of the overall reintegration process of
ex-combatants and community members. However, the conceptual
discussion and analysis of empirical evidence presented
consolidates key knowledge and understanding about the broad
trends of ex-combatants reintegration processes across the
GLR. Further, the findings here no doubt carry weight for
understanding ex-combatants reintegration processes in
contexts beyond the GLR. |
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