To understand the context-specific dynamics of community-based security and DDR programmes and contribute to adequate policies, strategies and programmes for effective design, implementation and coordination of community-based security and DDR in post-conflict countries.

Results:

• examination of the current state of affairs with regard to DDR policies and programmes, both initiated from above by state or multilateral agencies and from below, such as those carried out by NGOs and communities;
• the design of a context-specific approach for community-based DDR and follow-up activities to guarantee the human security of populations affected by conflict by carrying out a set of pilot action researches;
• sharing and dissemination of results to policy-makers, academicians and practitioners both in the North and in the South, during and after the completion of the project.