The missing use of technology in re-integration DDR processes begs the question of how modern technologies can have a positive impact on the re-socialization of ex-combatants. The under-utilization of modern capabilities demands scholarly answers to how gadgets can increase the success of ex-combatant reintegration. Unfortunately, the thought of combatants trading in guns for Iphones is not a strategy held by many practitioners, nor is it in the respective literature that they reference for their planning. While many authors have pointed out a need for an updated version of DDR programming or for the creation of a modern theoretical framework, almost none have incorporated modern technological capabilities into the language of their recommendations.
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For one, this is a consequence of the vastly different contexts that DDR is employed. Also, this relates to the divide in scholarly opinion between developing a technical program or theoretical framework for DDR, or even both. One approach, represented in Rodriguez et al., is to maintain a case-specific analysis. Their use of surveying Colombian ex-combatants allows the authors to generate a social-theory of reintegration specific to Colombia. However, this is limited to this region, because contextually speaking DDR programs will differ in terms of what has worked where. Therefore, outside of Colombia, the use of their research can be questioned in terms of operability in a different context. A contrasting approach, used by Hazen (2007), is to use a broad non-case specific method, as she has with the use of a general civil war model. Hazen focuses solely on social-theory but fails to provide a practical on the ground solution. On the other end of extremes, by not using any cases for reference, the practicality of her work can also be called into question. Even beyond these two examples, there is a clear grey area linking DDR theory and the practice of DDR, as well as a necessary medium of research needing to be used in an investigative …show more content…
That ‘researchers on reintegration need to move away from the overreliance on single-case study research and incorporate more ambitious efforts to assess distinct and detailed aspects of reintegration processes in multiple case studies’ (9). I believe that cross-cutting from multiple cases, to construct a theoretical framework of DDR, and incorporating social theory, ICT, and CVE, will produce the least questionable theories in terms of operability and practicality. Speaking to the literature for the assigned purposes, in terms of DDR, the UN Integrated DDR Standards (IDDRS) and the Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-combatants guidelines (SRE) are the industry standard for United Nations DDR Operations. These pieces provide the primary substance for the answer to my research question and together these documents will create compartments for which the other facets of my research will be
For one, this is a consequence of the vastly different contexts that DDR is employed. Also, this relates to the divide in scholarly opinion between developing a technical program or theoretical framework for DDR, or even both. One approach, represented in Rodriguez et al., is to maintain a case-specific analysis. Their use of surveying Colombian ex-combatants allows the authors to generate a social-theory of reintegration specific to Colombia. However, this is limited to this region, because contextually speaking DDR programs will differ in terms of what has worked where. Therefore, outside of Colombia, the use of their research can be questioned in terms of operability in a different context. A contrasting approach, used by Hazen (2007), is to use a broad non-case specific method, as she has with the use of a general civil war model. Hazen focuses solely on social-theory but fails to provide a practical on the ground solution. On the other end of extremes, by not using any cases for reference, the practicality of her work can also be called into question. Even beyond these two examples, there is a clear grey area linking DDR theory and the practice of DDR, as well as a necessary medium of research needing to be used in an investigative …show more content…
That ‘researchers on reintegration need to move away from the overreliance on single-case study research and incorporate more ambitious efforts to assess distinct and detailed aspects of reintegration processes in multiple case studies’ (9). I believe that cross-cutting from multiple cases, to construct a theoretical framework of DDR, and incorporating social theory, ICT, and CVE, will produce the least questionable theories in terms of operability and practicality. Speaking to the literature for the assigned purposes, in terms of DDR, the UN Integrated DDR Standards (IDDRS) and the Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-combatants guidelines (SRE) are the industry standard for United Nations DDR Operations. These pieces provide the primary substance for the answer to my research question and together these documents will create compartments for which the other facets of my research will be