A major challenge to improving human security and establishing sustainable peace in countries emerging from violent conflict is how to reintegrate ex-combatants into a peacetime society and economy. This is the first of two briefing papers produced as part of a year-long initiative aimed at reinvigorating the debate on reintegration. It was used in draft form to inform discussions at an Alert Roundtable held in Brussels in September 2009.
This briefing paper aims to provide a platform ensuring the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) concept moves from policy to practice, and to explore what role the EU can play.