Subedi - Combatants to Civilians

Summary

Nepal followed unconventional DDR
Mixed model of combining disarmament and demobilization with cash based incentives for ddr
- questionable how useful this was
- can cash based incentives for ddr depolitize DDR?
  - What are the risks
Talks about how DDR is a social, economic, and political process
ex-combatants do not form a homogenous social category, depends on their ability to forge social networks and social capital, particularly in roles of the “war family”
next generation disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, national governments taking the lead
talks about DDR in terms of minimalist vs maximalist terms
- minimalist
  - security focused
- maximalist
  - socioeconomic development agenda
talks about family as a concept
Lessons learned
- nepal was a typical enivronment where politics and political veiews are influenced by economic influence
- b/c the management of ex-combatants was seen as a political process rather than a social end economic process, maoists used their commitment to as a power bargin in politics
- not all ex-combatants reintegrate in the same way, especially when the DDR is cash based
Further research
- army integration was on the central agenda with security sector reform (ssr)
- reconciliation and reintegration