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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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