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Abstract
This article examines whether and how the circumstances of Colombian ex-combatants with disabilities were recognized in the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) processes in the period following the adoption of the 2016 peace agreement. Our results suggest severe procedural and substantive shortcomings during the drafting of the peace agreement and the implementation of the DDR processes that exacerbated the exclusion of ex-combatants with disabilities from available opportunities for their social, economic, and political reintegration. We conclude that a better understanding of the disabling impact of conflict and the experiences of impairment and disability could have mitigated such neglect.
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1 The Cantonal Research Ethics Committee or Commission Cantonale d' Éthique de la Recherche is one of the 77 ethics committees in Switzerland established by the Law on Human Research.
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Minerva Rivas Velarde
Minerva Rivas Velarde is a research associate at the University of Geneva, Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities. Her scholarship focuses on persons with disabilities in the developing world.
Janet E. Lord
Janet E. Lord is a senior research associate with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. Her expertise is the intersection of disability rights with international law, humanitarian law, and development.
Michael Ashley Stein
Michael Ashley Stein is the executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School since 2005, and an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights. He is considered among the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy.
Thomas Shakespeare
Tom Shakespeare is professor of disability research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a world-renowned bioethicist and disability rights scholar.