Negotiating reintegration in Uganda: Dealing with combatants during peace processes

There is a widespread perception that approaches to DDR are becoming increasingly professionalized and standardized. A doctrine is gradually emerging –

encapsulated by the IDDRS (UNWG 2006) – and lessons are appearing to be learned.4 There is a belief that for better or for worse, security and development priorities are effectively fusing at the normative level (Duffield 2007). Bureaucratically, this fusion is expressed in the UN’s growing penchant for integrated missions, the production of associated guidelines, the increased funding for DDR from multilateral and bilateral aid donors and the expanding involvement of the World Bank and UNDP in related activities.