It would eventually oversee the biggest reduction in Canadian government spending since demobilization after World War Two.
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Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs have been implemented in countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia.
It underwent gradual demobilization in 2003 during the process of negotiations with the administration of President Alvaro Uribe Velez.
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These roles include helping to develop effective, well-disciplined militaries that adhere to civilian rule, strengthening regional peacekeeping missions, and supporting postconflict demobilization and disarmament processes.
Issues from conventional demobilization to nuclear nonproliferation are primarily regional concerns.
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Postponing demobilization takes food off civilian tables and prevents recovery.
Under the law, members of the paramilitary forces who took part in the demobilization process and gave a full confession of their crimes would receive a maximum sentence of eight years.
While the demobilization has been full of imperfections the process has acquired a momentum of its own that offers a chance for more peace and the strengthening of the rule of law.
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If we exclude the demobilization periods following the end of World War II (three years) and the Korean War (two years) when spending declined, it has gone up 95% of the time.
The mobilization-demobilization approach was far from ideal.
The Uribe administration is under attack because the demobilization of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) and the resulting peace process has led to the opening of old and new wounds, revealing links between the paramilitary and the political establishment.
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