Connecting Community Security and DDR – Experiences from Eastern DRC (april 2010)

This report is based on 11 weeks of field research in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), between September and December 2009. Its aim is to connect community security and Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in a context specific way based on the insights of “Security Promotion in Fragile States: Can Local Meet National?” (Willems, Verkoren, Derks, Kleingeld, Frerks and Rouw, 2009) that was produced in the PSD network on community-based DDR.