GROUP THREE: MOVE TWO

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GROUP THREE MOVE TWO

• Outline
• Definition of DDR End State
• Key issues in DD R process
• Who, what, where, when, how
• Recommendations
• SRSG, MNF, CIVPOL, Humanitarian Coordinator

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END STATEDisarmament, Demobilizationand
Re-integration (DDR)

• Satisfactory integration of the ex-combatants in
  the peaceful and politically stable society in
  Tindoro.

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KEY ISSUES IN DDR

• DD R needs to be incorporated clearly in MNF
  and UNMSMT mandate
• Parties agreed in Siam agreement to establish
  Demobilization and Resettlement Commission
• Established conditions in support of cessation of
  hostilities (confidence building)
• Comprehensive framework needed for regular and
  irregular forces.
• Clear information on process communicated to
  former combatants.
• Consideration for voluntary vs. involuntary
  disarmament
• Advanced progress in resettlement/repatriation
  efforts of IDPs/Refugees, resolution of hot spots
  and political disputes of factions.
• Established UNDP Trust Fund for DDR in Tindoro.
• Political agreements to stem small arms
  proliferation.

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OBJECTIVES Disarmament/Demobilization

• Develop rapid timeline for disarmament and
  demobilization of both regular and irregular
  forces
• Demobilization needs to be a community-based
  approach
• Clarify numbers of combatants to be
  demobilized/re-integrated
• Ex-combatants return to barracks (regular forces)
  and/or resettle to community.
• Establishment of temporary cantonment
  camps/meeting points if necessary (especially
  irregular forces)
• Management/security of cantonment (military)
• Need for provision of basic services (UN
  Agencies, local Red Cross/Crescent)
• Weapons collection regime
• Security and Documentation
• Issue Old guns but not new guns?
• Need to broadly publicize security guarantees and
  incentives
• Word of mouth and leaflet distribution
• Establish UN and/or MNF radio station/distribute
  pre-programmed receivers/batteries with messages
  on
• Equitable disarmament of all parties
• Cash or food for weapons?
• MOU in resettlement giving choice of remaining in
  army or skills training.
• Referral system determine skills, medical
  screening, psycho-social counseling
• Future promise improved livelihood without USING
  gun
• After XXX period, enforcing disarmament and
  arrest/detain for those that are unwilling to
  disarm.

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Key Players Disarmament Demobilization
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OBJECTIVE Re-Integration

• Agree on transition period before final force
  size/structure
• Use existing military, government and UN/NGO
  structures for re-training ex-combatants in
  meaningful employment program.
• Re-establishment/sustainment of law and order
• Minimize reasons for ex-combatants to use/need
  guns
• Recommend a community based approach to
  re-integration
• Reconciliation Process
• Acceptance in community of origin
• Property rights/compensation issues (legal/human
  rights arena)
• Livelihoods without guns options for sustainable
  employment
• Status and sense of belonging (political/social)
• Education and Re-socialization
• Special programs for re-integration of child
  soldiers

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Key Players Re-integration
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Coordination Mechanisms
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Recommendations SRSG

• Ensure DDR is clear and explicit in task
  guidance to key players, consistent with
  commitments in SIAM Agreement.
• Ensure participatory planning in all phases of
  DDR process by the parties and key local players
  to secure sustained political will and ownership
  of process.
• Provide planners with useful data, including
  numbers of combatants to be DDRd, to all
  stakeholders.
• Secure initial funding and facilitate commitment
  of donors to ensure multi-year funding for full
  spectrum of DDR
• Ensure good information campaign to civilian
  population on DDR process
• Establish UN radio and other UN media outlets
• Initiate political process to control flow of
  arms into Tindoro
• Ensure crimes and issues of impunity are
  addressed in a proper, culturally sensitive
  process.

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RecommendationsMNF Commander

• Ensure collaborative/consultative planning for
  comprehensive framework to support separation and
  disarmament of combatants.
• Consultation (with SRSG, parties and humanitarian
  Coordinator) on choice of location of assembly
  areas and handover of ex-combatants in a phased
  manner that can be accommodated by civilian
  agencies
• Cantonment/destruction policy of weapons
  collected. Documentation.

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RecommendationsHumanitarian Coordinator

• Plan exit strategies and transition for emergency
  programs to development programs (i.e. transition
  from DD stage to R stage).
• Including transition from humanitarian
  coordinator to UNDP resident representative
• Provide timely and accurate assessments of status
  of refugee/IDP return and resettlement process

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RecommendationsCivilian Police Commissioner

• Develop a program to control weapons
  proliferation and secure border.
• Provide timely and accurate reports on law and
  order issues in hot spots that will affect
  willingness to disarm.