Security Promotion in Fragile States: Can Local Meet National?

Exploring the Connections between Community Security and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)

This report reviews the existing literature on the link between community security and DDR processes. It was produced by the working group Community Security and Community-based DDR in Fragile States that is part of the Peace Security and Development (PSD) Network. This working group has three main objectives. The first objecive is to examine the current state of affairs with regard to community security and DDR policies and programmes, whether initiated from above by the state or multilateral agencies or from below by NGOs and communities.

Peace Security and Development Network 2009 

This publication is an outcome of the in 2008 established ‘Network for Peace, Security and Development’. The Network aims to support and encourage the sharing of expertise and cooperation between the different Dutch sectors and organisations involved in fragile states. The PSD Network is an initiative under the Schokland Agreements in 2007.