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DDR PROGRAM [1 record]

Record 1 2009-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Arms Control
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

The goals of the DDR program were threefold: 1) to collect, register and destroy all conventional weapons turned in by combatants; 2) to demobilize approximately 45,000 combatants, 12 percent of whom were thought to be women, from the Sierra Leone Army, Revolutionary United Front, Armed Forces Revolutionary Council and Civil Defence Forces, and; 3) to assist ex-combatants through demobilization to prepare them for reintegration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contrôle des armements
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Le programme de DDR a été assuré par le gouvernement, en collaboration avec les missions et organismes de l'ONU, et des ONG internationales et nationales.

Spanish

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