ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the complex area of reconstructing security following conflict. Having set out the post-conflict environment this chapter moves on to consider the subject of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), which forms the core of activities that immediately follow the end of armed conflict in most places. UN Security Council Resolution 1325 also specifies that DDR programmes should take account of the different needs and experiences of women and men and therefore DDR programmes need to reflect the involvement of women. In last twenty years, the conventional approach to security reconstruction has been widely accepted by the international community as combining different versions of DDR and SSR. In addition, the government must address the root causes of local ethnic conflict by focusing on Libya's justice system. A lack of justice in the immediate post-conflict environment fuels the militias and reduces the legitimacy of the state. This is worsened by the presence of prisons run by the brigades themselves.
