Sierra Leone: Women and girls: From combat to community

This paper examines the disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programme that took place when conflict ceased in Sierra Leone. While these programmes effectively reached out to male combatants, they largely ignored women's roles and experiences of conflict. This paper explores women and girls' unique experiences of conflict, and assesses how a gender perspective can improve formal disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programmes.