Accession Number:

ADA556019

Title:

United Nations-Led Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

Personal Author(s):

• Allen, Tristan M.

Report Date:

2011-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

97.0

Abstract:

The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo MONUC was deployed following the signing of the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in July of 1999. A core pillar of the mission -- disarmament, demobilization and reintegration DDR programs -- have attempted to address the issue of multiple armed nonstate actors operating primarily in the countrys eastern districts of Ituri and North and South Kivu. MONUCs DDR initiatives can be subdivided into the national DDR program for Congolese combatants and the disarmament, demobilization, repatriation, reintegration and resettlement DDRRR of foreign armed groups. Although there has been some success in the DDRRR programs over the past 12 years of UN deployment, rampant insecurity attributed to the presence of armed groups in the DRC continues to plague the east. An examination of the DDR process in the east reveals that although the UN has assisted in the implementation of large, multidimensional DDR and DDRRR programs in the east, the situational context, voluntary approach, and links to Security Sector Reform SSR have all proven inadequate to achieving stability though DDR.

Descriptors:

• *GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN)
• *MISSIONS
• *PARAMILITARY FORCES
• *PEACEKEEPING
• *STABILIZATION
• *UNITED NATIONS
• *ZAIRE
• CIVILIAN POPULATION
• CONFLICT
• DEMOCRACY
• DISARMAMENT
• GENOCIDE
• HISTORY
• INSTABILITY
• INTEGRATION
• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• LESSONS LEARNED
• SECURITY
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science
• Military Forces and Organizations
• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE