Politically Enfranchising the Non-political: Safeguarding Peace through Civic Education and Inclusion?

By The Civil Defense Forces in Sierra Leone
Updated: 10/02/2009

By Nathalie Wlodarczyk. Civil Wars, 2009.

Author looks at some of the challenges posed to the DDR process by the Civil Defense Forces (CDF) in Sierra Leone. She looks at the classification system used in accepting applicants into the reintegration program and the problems it is creating, which includes the danger of the CDF reverting to its wartime activities. She concludes with an analysis on the dangers of over-emphasizing economic integration of ex-combatants to the detriment of political re-integration.

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